It is clear as day that to say that someone is ineligible to be elected to a position is, by the transitive property, to say that they are ineligible to hold the office. Obviously, bad faith operators will say otherwise but there is no reason to entertain their bullshit.
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if a vp takes over during the term of a standing poutus (for what ever reason), then goes on to earn two more terms?
cheers!
Admittedly more ridiculous shit has happened.
That’s how we got a game show host.
Constitutional pedantry make for shitty election strategy.
Like what you just did.
The 2-term limit gets drilled into you by middle school. It is the easiest fact to remember. It was on the test.
People just know in their bones what it’s supposed to mean.
Remember The whole injunctive relief they gave the Catholic Church during Covid.
I can imagine SCOTUS dreaming up all kinds of bullshit. Doesn't mean we should accept it.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4768521-supreme-court-conservative-5th-circuit/amp/
NO, IT MEANS I GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THIS AND WANT SOMETHING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT!!!
Get back in the damn ring!
they will turn against Trump if their lives get worse
There’s been coups and counter-coups since then and the court reimposed term limits in Nov 2024 so 🤷.
Someone advised Democrat leadership to sit and wait.
Someone advised Kamala not to ask for manual counts (which are only bad for cheaters).
Someone is advancing corporate/billionaire agenda. Successfully...
It means the solution must be found outside this SCOTUS... & thru state courts, the legislature, public opinion, or expanding SCOTUS. It doesn’t mean you stop making the case before SCOTUS
Had the GOP gained control of both Congressional chambers they almost certainly would’ve ruled in the NC legislature’s favor.
https://bsky.app/profile/djsziff.bsky.social/post/3lefce2qgec2j
We needed alternative solutions but what were they?
It's ultimately a radicalizing image, but def a big yikes.
Perhaps I am being too cynical and elitist—and I genuinely don’t mean that sarcastically.
https://bsky.app/profile/djsziff.bsky.social/post/3lefce2qgec2j
"No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
So what is it we are talking about here?
Also never underestimate the power of spite.
I’m not looking forward to all the stories next year of supporters saying, “Oh wow. I didn’t realize how gone he is” but it’ll happen.
(This is not a criticism.)
Its disgusting and then it makes perfect sense why they keep losing
I get being stunned to lose to a rapist felon but the rapist felon is 78, obese, has progressive dementia, and is an imbecile who will fail governing
They don't see this shit as a knock-on effect... largely because democrats STILL SOMEHOW HAVEN'T politicized the control of the SCOTUS.
Electoral consequences aren't a deterrent for fucking over our rights via the court, because voters don't remember long enough to issue them.
If something evil was somehow able to be argued convincingly to be “constitutional” what the fuck is the point?
Legal brain rot
Only question is how to put enough spine into those officers.
The constitutional rule itself is anti-democratic, and there seems to be little appetite among D-appointed jurists to defend anti-democratic constitutional rules.
Rejecting “put the question to the public” is challenging when your political coalition’s own judicial picks adopted that rule.
"No one resident in the United States of America (defined as that area between 156-64 degrees West, and 72 degrees North-18 degrees South, in which US law is the law of the land) shall be an obtuse arsehole (either deliberately or accidentally).
I don’t know anyone a decade ago who wouldn’t have found the 14th Amendment “clear” (despite lingering concerns) yet here we are about to swear in a 21st century Jefferson Davis!