@wdlindsy qualification clauses exist for a reason. It's not the people deciding thru "election" if somebody less than 35 can be president, if someone not native born can be president, etc. Nor, as made clear in the 14th amendment, is it up to election whether someone who had been an insurrectionist during while holding or having held a public office can be elected to one again.
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gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 00:24:16 JST gnutelephony
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 00:24:17 JST William Lindsey :toad:
As Linkins notes, the "most idiotic case" the grave gurus are making is that "the people," not courts and Constitutions, should decide if Trump is fit for office.
"But where did Article 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment come from, if not 'the people?' These words were ratified through the same democratic process as every other amendment to the Constitution. They weren’t put there by gods or monsters."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 00:24:18 JST William Lindsey :toad:
"When the decision eventually comes, the press will have created an environment in which the Supreme Court’s disregard for the Constitution’s text won’t be viewed as a radical act.
That this consensus was reached so quickly is something of a surprise, as the dominant mode of the pundit class is to venerate the Constitution as a peerless document, the final answer to all questions."#Trump #Constitution #insurrection #MediaFail #SupremeCourt
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 00:24:19 JST William Lindsey :toad:
The effect of the media's behavior will be the following:
"The Roberts court has been vastly aided and abetted by our political media, who after waiting so long for Trump to discover virtue, have quickly declared the Article 3 tool to be a vice—either searingly unfair to use in this instance or invalid on its face."
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William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 00:24:20 JST William Lindsey :toad:
Jason Linkins asks why the self-anointed grave arbiters of everything in our mainstream media have been so quick to go to very strange lengths to discount "the one part of the Constitution that was designed to prevent the crisis we now face" with Trump running for the presidency.
These are the same media gurus who told us when he was president that he'd "grow into" gravity and presidential behavior.
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