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Val Heath's avatar

The point about the Twenty-Second Amendment is very important. I’m just as conflicted about using the Fourteenth Amendment to disqualify Trump. But if a candidate (or especially a court) can just ignore the plain text of a passage of the Constitution concerning qualification for office, then he/she (it) can ignore ANY passage.

“Trump is immensely popular and it would be in democratic to remove him from the ballot!”

Now substitute “No person shall … hold any office who … shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion“ with “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” The excuse can neuter them both.

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Craig Butcher's avatar

We are seeing that the Constitution matters only to the extent of the number of divisions it commands. Moral force alone is simply an amusing curiosity without power to affect events in the real world.

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