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Though I am a “Never Trump” voter, I think the Supreme Court correctly rules on this issue. To give individual states the power to keep federal candidates off a ballot invites all sorts of mischief and unintended consequences. Had the authors of the 14th Amendment been more concise in describing when, how, and by whom it could be exercised, there’d be little if any need for the courts to interpret these matters. Despite it being a brilliant document, the Constitution is sloppily written. And 234 years later that fact still causes too many debates and disagreements.
It’s really not sloppily written, it’s too many folks trying to reinterpret it to fit their thinking or agendas.
As you said, the Surpreme Court made the right decision.
However, I disagree with your assessment that the Constitution was sloppy written
The Constitution written as it was is an incredible document of
freedoms and checks & balances.
The framers carefully considered the negative aspects of human nature
such as greed and lust for power.
The Supreme Court hears anywhere from 100 to 150 cases a year out of some 7,000 cases a year that it rejects. If the Constitution were well-written (concise, clear, and unambiguous), there should not be so many disputes over what the document means.
But the Constitution is not well-written, hence the disputes and different interpretations.
Brent B.
So what??
It still doesn’t mean that the Constitution isn’t a well written
document.
The Constitution was not meant to arbitrate every single issue.
That’s what the courts were created to do.
They made the right call. This would have been a really bad precedent for states to be able to remove a candidate.
I think the court got it half right. It is somewhat a bad precedent to allow states to remove candidates. But NOW, we are stuck with congress having to act, and you see how that worked out after the attempted Insurrection on January 6th when the insurrectionist party fell in line with their leader.
Not one person has been convicted of insurrection.
It was never an insurrection although it was pure stupidity on part
of the Trump supporters to storm the Capitol.
“It wasn’t an insurrection”
It wasn’t a well planned one or successful one, I agree.
But what would you call it when someone who loses an election (and knows he lost it, fair and square, because numerous people told him he’d lost) goes ahead and assembles a mob of people he knows are armed and encourages them to march to the place where his defeat is being made official?
And when things get wild, as he promised, he sits on his hands and lets them get wild?
And people try to say Biden is worse. Some of you spent the weekend shopping in Illinois or Michigan.
KEITH B., the 14th Amendment does not require a conviction for insurrection in order to be invoked. The event on January 6 qualifies as “an act or instance of revolting especially violently against civil or political authority” and “inciting or engaging in such revolt” – the definition “insurrection.”
Brent B.
Under your interpretation, then not not only should the January 6 th Rioters be
prosecuted for insurrection and not allowed to vote,
but leftwing BLM/Antifa rioters that attacked state houses, municipal buildings,
federal facilities, police precincts, and their attempt to breach the Supreme Court and the White
House should also be prosecuted and not allowed to vote.
Joe B.
I don’t like Biden or Trump. But it looks like that’s what we will be stuck with
for the 2024 election.
Biden is very incompetent. For starters, just look at the broken border crisis.
A crisis that Biden and the Progressives crrested.
You don’t see Biden’s failures because we have a very corrupt leftwing
national news media that threw any semblance of objectivity out the window.
During Trump’s tenure, Progressive Dems and their tradional national news media allies couldn’t get to the border fast enough or often enough.
But under Biden, they’re no where to be found.
couldn’t get to the border fast enough or often enough to scream and cry.
Trump is not the threat that Biden is.
Biden is very incompetent?
He got a heck of a lot done before Republicans retook the House and proved they aren’t qualified to run a lemonade stand.
Biden got so much done that he turned around and gave Republicans most everything they wanted to solve the border crisis, and they turned it down because it was bad politics. So you’re gonna have to try harder to continue to blame Biden for the border, or just stop watching Fox.
Trump passed a tax cut for the rich that’s been bad for folks like me and he packed the Supreme Court. That’s his accomplishments. Even things that would have been a good idea to do, like banning TikTok until China was opened to American social media companies, or fixing America’s infrastructure, Trump lost interest in doing.
Heck Biden got that infrastructure deal done while Trump fumed.
That mistaken third coronavirus stimulus bill?
Remember the bill to make chips in America?
A bill to let Medicare negotiate drug prices
You can disagree with his policies and what he got passed, but don’t try to tell me he’s incompetent.
Meanwhile Trump throws around the word dictator and claims he should have a third term. I am amazed a lot of Americans think that a second Trump term would be good for them. They might have a minority group that they loathe that they get to watch get punched down on by some Christian nationalists, but it’s not like they’re going to get more money in their pocket or better healthcare or anything tangible.
All I got from the a Trump presidency was higher taxes and an exploded deficit because several of the deductions that I used got eliminated, likely so some hedge fund billionaire could buy another private jet since we had to pay for the rich to be able to write off their private jet purchases somehow.