• june@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    And so we decide to let tyrants through so that their party doesn’t have made up and twisted precedent to try to disqualify qualified candidates? It’s not like the GOP need or care about precedent anyway. If they want to try and do it they’ll try and do it. Booting someone like trump who has done what trump has done is a legitimate implementation of the law and the right thing to do.

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      And so we decide to let tyrants through

      We don’t decide. A few Ivy League JDs in robes get to decide. The decision on whether to list a particular candidate on the ballot is, inherently, undemocratic.

      If they want to try and do it they’ll try and do it.

      State governments don’t need any more tools in the chest to decide who can and cannot appear on a ballot.

      Booting someone like trump who has done what trump has done is a legitimate implementation of the law and the right thing to do.

      I agree. But he’s not the only one who will get booted off under this rule. We both know it.

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        8 months ago

        ‘This rule’ being the 14th amendment? The one in the constitution? We should just ignore it so that the bad guys don’t try to use it illegitimately when we know they will anyway?

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          ‘This rule’ being the 14th amendment?

          “This rule” being the judicial decision that invokes the 14th amendment.

          We should just ignore it

          You’re free to do as you please, but it won’t matter unless you’re one of the Big Nine.

          What are you doing to do if the SCOTUS rules in Trump’s favor, other than pounding sand?