n the 60 years I've been practicing and teaching law, I've never seen a decision that's so anti-democratic and so unconstitutional; it is absurd," Dershowitz told co-hosts Emma Rechenberg and Jon Glasgow. "The idea that the 14th Amendment was supposed to substitute for the impeachment provision, carefully drafted by the framers, is wrong."
The 14th Amendment stipulates the process, which clearly says Congress shall have the power to ensure that a person cannot run for office, Dershowitz continued.
"If you want to impeach a president, if you want to make him not be able to run in the future, there's a provision. It requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate," he said. "But the idea that the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to circumvent that carefully drawn provision and simply allow any state to make up grounds for denying him the right to be on the ballot undercuts democracy."
Also, the Harvard University professor emeritus noted, Trump has not been charged or convicted of taking part in an insurrection, a term that has not been defined legally.
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule against the Colorado decision, and with more than just a conservative majority, according to Dershowitz.
"I think this case will be decided not along party lines in the Supreme Court," he said. "I think this is such an extreme stretch of the 14th Amendment that he will get more votes than just the people he appointed to the Supreme Court or even the 5-4 conservative majority. I suspect you'll get the chief justice, and I suspect he'll get some other justices, as well.
"This is an extreme, extreme stretch. If you go and read the text of the provision, it doesn't even apply to president. It says no person shall by a senator, or representative or elector, and then it gives an oath of office, and the oath of office is not the presidential oath of office. It's the senatorial oath of office.
"So even the text of the Constitution doesn't make it applicable to the president. But the amendment itself was designed simply to prevent people who fought in the Civil War from running for certain offices."
Yeah but still
Yeah but still, the affirmative action justices will dissent.
Its why we need trump to go away. the longer hes around the more dems can get away normalizing shit like this.
First it was blatant cheating where everyone turned a blind eye "eh its only in this extreme circumstance it's okay to keep trump out!"
I agree with Trump needing to fade into retirement and championing a stronger candidate (I will be voting Trump if he is on the ballot) but letting the bad guys do this shit and get away with it is unacceptable. Somehow we have to get our country back from the far left who literally are taking away our rights as Americans.
But my contention is that all trumps nonsense gets in the way to the point the average person doesn’t care about any of the shit they do. Which is how they get away with it.
If people weren’t so sick of trumps antics the non die hard dems would be up in arms over banning candidates from running and stuff. (Since it’s an obvious bad idea that will backfire eventually) But the average person is so exhausted of them that it’s all just noise that gets drowned out
Problem is you can't beat his minions in the GOP... so we are stuck with him and hope he doesn't screw up.
Its why we need trump to go away. the longer hes around the more dems can get away normalizing shit like this.
First it was blatant cheating where everyone turned a blind eye "eh its only in this extreme circumstance it's okay to keep trump out!"
I agree with Trump needing to fade into retirement and championing a stronger candidate (I will be voting Trump if he is on the ballot) but letting the bad guys do this shit and get away with it is unacceptable. Somehow we have to get our country back from the far left who literally are taking away our rights as Americans.
But my contention is that all trumps nonsense gets in the way to the point the average person doesn’t care about any of the shit they do. Which is how they get away with it.
If people weren’t so sick of trumps antics the non die hard dems would be up in arms over banning candidates from running and stuff. (Since it’s an obvious bad idea that will backfire eventually) But the average person is so exhausted of them that it’s all just noise that gets drowned out
I understand what you are saying but it really doesn't matter who the candidate is, the press is going to tell their lies and skewer him or her. They will be vicious on Nikki just like they were to DeSantis and even his cancer survivor wife who by all accounts is an angel. Trump is serving a purpose. He is a sacrificial lamb at this point. The guy fighting like hell against a corrupt system. Last week the NYT was caught AGAIN just flat lying about what Trump said. That is not going to stop no matter who the GOP candidate is.
I do have to chuckle though when it comes to Trump 2024 vs 2020. You hardly hear from him now. His handlers have gotten him from posting on social media 50 times a day to much less and some days it is zero. Yet people continue to complain about him and social media.
I think that's due to the law suits... so in that way, it may be a blessing.
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And you have it
One person one vote
Wait
Nothing new Demonrat racists have been at this shit forever.
Totally not fascists
Content free gay useless content
Wanting Israel obliterated isn't anti Semitic
Criticism of Soros is
What a bunch of losers
So gullible