Nougat, 5 months ago to USpolitics

If Trump is ineligible via #SectionThree, then aren't Haley and DeSantis also inelgibile, having promised to pardon him? Aid and comfort?

iuculano, 5 months ago to maine

“I do not reach this conclusion lightly,” #Maine's #Democratic Secretary of State #ShennaBellows wrote in her 34-page decision. “I am mindful that no #SecretaryOfState has ever deprived a presidential candidate of #BallotAccess based on #Section3 of the #FourteenthAmendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in #insurrection.”

#Trump #Disqualification
#14thAmendment
#14thAmendmentSection3
#SectionThree

https://apnews.com/article/maine-trump-presidential-ballot-election-insurrection-081fd38ce1f20be9b8423cb2f8c66dee

joeinwynnewood, 5 months ago to random

#SectionThree
I just finished listening to 2 episodes with the Federalist Society (FedSoc) stalwart authors of the U of P Law Review article, The Force and Sweep of Section Three (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751), professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, on the conservative podcast, Amarica’s Constsitution.
The discussion is an interesting window into the FedSoc judicial philosophy boiler room. While I think the constructs they’ve built are ...

carolleisa, 5 months ago to random

BREAKING: #ColoradoSupremeCourt rules #Trumpdisqualified from GOP primary election ballot. 200-page opinion. Cites 14thAmendment #SectionThree
MSNBC