Already beat him fair and square, he refused to accept it and attempted an insurrection - thus, the 14th Amendment.
Originally Posted by tommy156
Look, I'm not the only one saying trump should remain on the ballot. A majority of Democrats are saying the same! Gavin Newsome, Jack Smith, Shirley Webber, et al. They all looked into the possibility of (ab)using the 14th Amendment in this way. They all concluded it's a bad idea. Aren't you curious to learn WHY your fellow Dems reached that conclusion? Do your homework! Only far-left partisan kooks like the Maine SoS and those 4 Justices in Colorado think otherwise. They're outliers. Didn't you tell me you're NOT a far-left guy? Then why can't you fall in line and agree with the majority of your own party?
By the way, you don't get to just cherry-pick your way around the Constitution to get your preferred outcome. The 14th Amendment is just as important as any of the others.
Originally Posted by tommy156
Good grief! If anyone is cherry-picking, it's the far-left nuts who are scouring the Constitution looking for ANY provision to twist & distort into a far-fetched pretext to disqualify trump from running again.
It probably never occurred to you, but parts of the Constitution are often in conflict. Free speech versus defamation. Religious liberty versus anti-discrimination. Gun rights versus public safety. Federal authority versus state rights. Why do you think Lady Justice is holding a scale?
The right of every American citizen to due process under the law is fundamental. If you take that away from trump (under flimsy legal theories about the 14th Amendment), you open a Pandora's Box that will enable bad actors in future to strip ANYONE of their due process rights.
If you want to keep trump off the ballot, then do it the right way - charge and convict him of "insurrection" in a court of law. If your legal arguments and evidence are so strong, you will prevail. Fuck this "self-executing" bullshit. Trump gets to hire lawyers, defend himself, introduce exculpatory evidence and witnesses, etc. That's what due process means. That's how it works. Why can't you understand this and follow the law?