The 14th amendment...

mikeT

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How come nobody is discussing it here?

The likely answer is that it's long and tedious, full of details about the adjudication of law/justice. However, section 3 is very much relevant to today's political zeitgeist:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.​

I know plenty of people here have discussed ways in which the orange fascist might be prevented from holding office. And yet Merrick Garland's appointment of a special counsel, announced just 2 days after the orange fascist declared he'd run for the presidency again, is too coincidental to ignore.

Is Garland hoping to give our country's 14th amendment a chance to take action?
 
How come nobody is discussing it here?

The likely answer is that it's long and tedious, full of details about the adjudication of law/justice. However, section 3 is very much relevant to today's political zeitgeist:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.​

I know plenty of people here have discussed ways in which the orange fascist might be prevented from holding office. And yet Merrick Garland's appointment of a special counsel, announced just 2 days after the orange fascist declared he'd run for the presidency again, is too coincidental to ignore.

Is Garland hoping to give our country's 14th amendment a chance to take action?
Naw it is strictly timed to be a political maneuver to rouse the rabble. It is working. You are roused.
 
Naw it is strictly timed to be a political maneuver to rouse the rabble. It is working. You are roused.
As a legal/political analyst, your skills are cutting it...

It undoubtedly WAS timed, but not for politics. It was timed for the constitution - that document the right-wing here likes to pretend it cares about.
 
As a legal/political analyst, your skills are cutting it...

It undoubtedly WAS timed, but not for politics. It was timed for the constitution - that document the right-wing here likes to pretend it cares about.
The left has been trying to bring charges for six years now .
 
How come nobody is discussing it here?

The likely answer is that it's long and tedious, full of details about the adjudication of law/justice. However, section 3 is very much relevant to today's political zeitgeist:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.​

I know plenty of people here have discussed ways in which the orange fascist might be prevented from holding office. And yet Merrick Garland's appointment of a special counsel, announced just 2 days after the orange fascist declared he'd run for the presidency again, is too coincidental to ignore.

Is Garland hoping to give our country's 14th amendment a chance to take action?
I know all about it!!

Why do you think the Dems said January 6, which wasn't an insurrection, an insurrection? ... think about it. You're way behind many of us on this. Can you do the math correctly?

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As a legal/political analyst, your skills are cutting it...

It undoubtedly WAS timed, but not for politics. It was timed for the constitution - that document the right-wing here likes to pretend it cares about.
Gullible much, Mike?

The Democrats don't lie about "insurrections," or anything else, do they, Mike?
 
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