• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The people who wrote the 14th amendmend fucked up. They did not specify how the disqualification clause is supposed to be invoked.

    I mean, how are we suppose to invoke that?

    States? If so, red states could just ban democrats by abusing the disqualification clause.

    Conviction in courts? Well, trump never got convicted for treason/sedition. States convictionss of fraud isn’t disqualifying.

    Simple Majority in congress? Well, again, a unified congress can just use it to disqualify the other party.

    Supermajority? Well, that would never happen.

    Supreme court? Well… look at the composition of the court

    So… yea… somebody fucked up.

    Blame the authors of the 14th amendment.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the Founders were under the impression that we’d rewrite the Constitution periodically when we discovered loopholes or other new problems they didn’t foresee.