Some jails allow book shipments from Amazon and big-box chains, while denying book shipments from independent bookstores. Now, an independent bookstore, Avid Bookshop, has filed a lawsuit alleging that this is unconstitutional.
More from the #amicus brief’s statement of interest:
“Amici’s interest in this appeal arises from the gravity of the case before the Court & the necessity of grounding any decision in a proper historical understanding of Section Three of the #FourteenthAmendment. As eminent American historians w/ expertise in the relevant era, actors, & events, amici are well qualified to assist the Court by establishing the original intent, meaning, & public understanding of the Disqualification Clause.”
"It seems to me that if Trump can win the election given everything we know about him — including court findings that he engaged in #fraud in #NewYork and that he sexually assaulted #EJeanCarroll –we have a problem that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment cannot solve."
"The evidence here demonstrates that [Jan 6 Insurrection] occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President. The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and [Maine law] requires me to act in response.”
Secty of State Shenna Bellows: "I do not reach this conclusion lightly. I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the #FourteenthAmendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in #insurrection."
Colorado Supreme Court on why "officer of the United States" in the Insurrection Clause includes President:
It makes no sense to "disqualif[y] every oath-breaking insurrectionist except the most powerful one & that it bars oath breakers from virtually every office, both state and federal, except the highest one in the land."
@Free_Press Individuals, who are defendants in fraud trial(s) better shut the fuck up publicly fantasizing about "rigged elections", like Trump did in 2016 before the election, when polls (accurately) predicted he was gonna lose to Hillary — which didn't happen due to Putin's interference & habitual/traditional "Republican" voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, intimidation & other regularly practiced methods of fraudulently obstructing the electoral process.
QUICK SUMMARY: PREVAILING VIEW OF THE MOST RESPECTED CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL #CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARS IS THAT #TRUMP IS DISQUALIFIED, RIGHT NOW, TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN ANY STATE, VIA #FourteenthAmendment.
Whether he's convicted of any crime=irrelevant. He's as unqualified as if he were, say, born in Africa.
"The attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event. It was the culmination of a scheme by Trump and his allies to use lies, intimidation, coercion and ultimately violence to keep Trump in office.
"“Donald #Trump is the living embodiment of the threat that the Fourteenth Amendment’s framers sought to protect American #democracy against when they barred constitutional oath-breakers from office.”
Like other constitutional qualifications... Section 3 is enforceable through civil #lawsuits challenging a candidate’s eligibility to hold office...
As students of the #UnitedStatesConstitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of #ConstitutionalLaw, & both as constitutional advocates, scholars, & practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the #FourteenthAmendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation’s second founding & a new birth of freedom, contains within it a protection against the dissolution of the republic by a #treasonous president.
Just remember, this is the issue that Republicans have latched onto currently, they won't give up. Just like with racism and sexism and religious bigotry, they will only get more creative, less obvious. It won't look like hate, that's how it succeeds. Listen to the people being hurt
@BigAngBlack Good to know, that large numbers of judges are loyal the United States Constitution, especially also the Reconstruction Amendments.
To be very clear: Every attack on SCOTUS decisions based on the Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection-, Due Process- & other 14A clauses
is an attack on the Fourteenth Amendment itself & the other Reconstruction Amendments 13 & 15, added to the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War & abolition of slavery.