Trump is already ‘ineligible to serve as president ever again’
According to a renowned Harvard law professor and a distinguished retired conservative judge, regardless of how Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. trial plays out over an alleged plot to overturn the voters’ will in the 2020 presidential election, he is already ineligible to hold office again based upon provisions contained within the U.S. Constitution.
In a comprehensive column for The Atlantic, Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School, and retired conservative Judge Michael Luttig who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, maintained that the former president has already disqualified himself based upon his actions with regard to the Jan. 6 insurrection and a guilty verdict in Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courtroom isn’t even needed to put congressional action in motion.
According to the two legal scholars, based upon their research of the Fourteenth Amendment ratified in 1868, Trump’s Jan. 6 complicity and election interference plots fulfill should bar him from office — but Congress and the country needs the will to enforce it
Writing that the “often-overlooked Section 3, automatically excludes from future office and position of power in the United States government …any person who has taken an oath to support and defend our Constitution and thereafter rebels against that sacred charter, either through overt insurrection or by giving aid or comfort to the Constitution’s enemies,” the two legal experts made the case that former president went well beyond that.
In the 80’s Trump claimed in an interview that people from the future were trying to kill him. He questioned what he had done, for them to want to kill him. May be why he now mostly eats fast food.
From Poe’s great story "The cask of Amontillado’’ the last lines;
No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!
I have loved this story and all of Poe’s work since I was just a small panda.
Oh no, he should have the usual prison fare that EVERYONE has to eat. Bologna sandwiches that are on stale white pappy bread that you have to BUY the packet of mustard to put on it. Canned corn that is heated and re-heated (if you’re lucky) and if you want RAMEN NOODLES, those cost $1.00 and you have to PAY for the little packet of flavour that comes with it. I know what I speak of. I had someone who didn’t deserve a fraction of this crap to endure this “food” for enough time in and out of our broken system that should take care of THIS bread and circus that is prancing about right now, that when he was expedited to the state where the charges still weren’t representing all his efforts, when he finally arrived at the final destination, they thought he was a recovering malnourished drug addict (he didn’t do ANY drugs whatsoever) and fed him a more nourishing diet of red beans and rice which was for him, a FEAST compared to the stuff he’d endured. I hope Georgia invokes the chain gang ruling. That’d fix his wagon but GOOD.
JohnHarry Premium Member 9 months ago
For every meal for a year ought to do it.
RitaGB 9 months ago
But no ketchup!
BigDeal 9 months ago
I read somewhere that Trumpie was paranoid about being poisoned. The thought of prison food probably terrifies him, if he can even think about it.
Teto85 Premium Member 9 months ago
No Diet Coke?
Radish the wordsmith 9 months ago
Trump is already ‘ineligible to serve as president ever again’
According to a renowned Harvard law professor and a distinguished retired conservative judge, regardless of how Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. trial plays out over an alleged plot to overturn the voters’ will in the 2020 presidential election, he is already ineligible to hold office again based upon provisions contained within the U.S. Constitution.
In a comprehensive column for The Atlantic, Laurence H. Tribe, a professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School, and retired conservative Judge Michael Luttig who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, maintained that the former president has already disqualified himself based upon his actions with regard to the Jan. 6 insurrection and a guilty verdict in Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courtroom isn’t even needed to put congressional action in motion.
According to the two legal scholars, based upon their research of the Fourteenth Amendment ratified in 1868, Trump’s Jan. 6 complicity and election interference plots fulfill should bar him from office — but Congress and the country needs the will to enforce it
Writing that the “often-overlooked Section 3, automatically excludes from future office and position of power in the United States government …any person who has taken an oath to support and defend our Constitution and thereafter rebels against that sacred charter, either through overt insurrection or by giving aid or comfort to the Constitution’s enemies,” the two legal experts made the case that former president went well beyond that.
librarylady59 9 months ago
What? No Coke? Cruel and unusual punishment!!!
dyerjames944 9 months ago
Hell with that “Georgia courtesy service.” I’d make that Lying, Crooked B!@#$%^ PAY for it! “NO PAY-NO EAT!”
nyg16 9 months ago
breaking new today: Today the ex president choked on a Chicken McNugget and died.
Daeder 9 months ago
“Where’s my two scoops?!”
pamela welch Premium Member 9 months ago
This put a very big smile on my face ♥♥
scote1379 Premium Member 9 months ago
No way it gets baloney and stale bread just like the ODC ’s ! LOLAN
Frankfreak 9 months ago
In the 80’s Trump claimed in an interview that people from the future were trying to kill him. He questioned what he had done, for them to want to kill him. May be why he now mostly eats fast food.
Erse IS better 9 months ago
I would find that pleasant to contemplate.
FreyjaRN Premium Member 9 months ago
A milk shake and not a diet Coke? They are actively truing to give him a cardiac event. Not that the Coke is safer, caffeine being a cardiac irritant.
gary.eddings4157 Premium Member 9 months ago
YES!!
comixbomix 9 months ago
Wanna be fried with that?
macmantoo 9 months ago
Don’t forget the ketchup.
Rich Douglas 9 months ago
Whoops. Supposed to be a Diet Coke.
Tonto & Redd Panda 9 months ago
From Poe’s great story "The cask of Amontillado’’ the last lines;
No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!
I have loved this story and all of Poe’s work since I was just a small panda.
john_chubb 9 months ago
NO!
Not a happy meal. Those come with little toys that constitute a safety hazard for small children.
We want him hale and hearty for his trial and resultant imprisonment.
And take away that long tie – he might hang himself when he realizes he’s never going to see a golf course again!
loonygardener 9 months ago
Oh no, he should have the usual prison fare that EVERYONE has to eat. Bologna sandwiches that are on stale white pappy bread that you have to BUY the packet of mustard to put on it. Canned corn that is heated and re-heated (if you’re lucky) and if you want RAMEN NOODLES, those cost $1.00 and you have to PAY for the little packet of flavour that comes with it. I know what I speak of. I had someone who didn’t deserve a fraction of this crap to endure this “food” for enough time in and out of our broken system that should take care of THIS bread and circus that is prancing about right now, that when he was expedited to the state where the charges still weren’t representing all his efforts, when he finally arrived at the final destination, they thought he was a recovering malnourished drug addict (he didn’t do ANY drugs whatsoever) and fed him a more nourishing diet of red beans and rice which was for him, a FEAST compared to the stuff he’d endured. I hope Georgia invokes the chain gang ruling. That’d fix his wagon but GOOD.