By now, it is clear that the concerted effort to paint Donald Trump as a criminal has backfired. After four indictments, including the most recent 13-count indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, Pres. Trump holds a commanding lead among prospective Republican primary voters in Iowa and elsewhere. Evidence indicates that Trump’s criminal indictments strengthen, rather than shrink, his poll numbers. Enraged by Trump’s rising popularity, his political opponents are now looking to keep his name off the ballot entirely. Already, this effort has gained momentum in Michigan, New Hampshire, and Arizona. These states, egged on by elite law professors, have turned the 14th Amendment, which was previously used to prevent ex-Confederates from seeking office after the Civil War, into an improvised legal weapon designed to bar the former president from reclaiming office after his actions in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election.
Although this legal effort can be seen as politics at its worst and as an endeavor to undermine elections and our democracy, Trump’s political and legal opponents — both liberal and conservative — have endorsed the claim that the Constitution stands between Trump and the White House. Even though such an effort is likely to backfire, Trump’s opponents — most prominently, Professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen — assert that the “Fourteenth Amendment forbids holding office by former office holders who have participated in insurrection or rebellion.” Strikingly, they claim that Section Three of the 14th Amendment bars former President Trump from office because of his alleged participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election results.
Neither evidence nor precedent supports this idea. Moreover, it is clear that special counsel Jack Smith declined to charge Trump with “insurrection” or “rebellion.” Nevertheless, blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome and demanding that the people submit to their analysis the way snakes are drawn irresistibly to open fire, the professors support the tyranny of the few rather than democracy favored by the people.
Trump’s adversaries contend that secretaries of State may not list on their election ballots as candidates anyone who is not eligible to hold presidential office despite the language of Article II of the Constitution. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution states: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
Yet no investigation of those who have relentlessly pursued him for YEARS, claiming “clear and compelling evidence” of guilt. You know who they are.
May have to include Maryland, if commie/fascist SoS Susan Lee gets her way! (By the way, why are our local reps schmoozing with the commie/fascist governor? Makes me very uncomfortable/sad).