Monday, March 4, 2024

Simple, Simple

 
   If you read the Constitution, you, too, will probably conclude the Supreme Court made a clear misjudgment in ruling that Donald Trump should not be removed from the ballot.
   The 14th Amendment says no person having previously taken an oath shall hold any office if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion or have comforted those who have done so.
   That means Trump doesn't qualify, right? Simple, simple.
   But then there is that key wording the court relied on to get Trump back on the ballot. Says our venerable document: "But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
That says that if Congress votes to remove the disability of not being able to hold office, the person is thereby reinstated.  Simple, simple.
   The Court, though, argued that that phrase means the person cannot be denied the office unless Congress removes them. The Court is wrong; the word "remove" is not used to say the person will be removed from office, but that the disability to hold the office can be removed by the two-thirds vote.
 Simple, simple. 

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