Regarding Trump's disqualification to hold federal (or state) office, we (the sovereign people and our public servants) should heed the Constitution, especially in light of the unconstitutional conduct of SCOTUS justices deceitfully trying to help Trump reign again. Our Constitution was specifically amended after a bunch of insurrectionists in office tried to rip it up and rip our country apart.
The Fourteenth Amendment is clear and emphatic: "No [such] person" (including Trump) who took "an oath" to "support the Constitution of the United States" and then violated it by "engag[ing] in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" can hold any federal or state office." Congress was given two roles here. First, "Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." Second, Congress with federal law may (and must) prescribe what constitutes the crimes, above. Congress clearly did the latter and clearly did not do the former.
18 U.S. Code § 2383 made "Rebellion or insurrection" federal crimes.
"Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto" clearly "shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
With Trump v. United States, SCOTUS justices blatantly helped insurrections withhold evidence and postpone prosecution past the date of this election. No matter what happens on election night, our Constitution requires the current President to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and to "the best of [his] Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," including by "tak[ing] Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Article VI of our Constitution also required all "Senators and Representatives" and "all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States" to "support this Constitution." So they all swore (or affirmed) that every day every way possible they "will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
The Constitution limits even the power of the sovereign people to put an insurrectionist back in office.
In Fin. Oversight & Mgmt. Bd. for P.R. v. Aurelius Inv., LLC, 590 U.S. 448 (2020), Justice Sotomayor authored a concurring opinion. She emphasized that “this Court has recognized” repeatedly that “the distinguishing feature” of our “republican form of government” is “the right of the people to choose their own officers for governmental administration, and pass their own laws in virtue of the legislative power reposed in representative bodies, whose legitimate acts" (laws enacted by Congress) "may be said to be those of the people themselves.”
Justice Sotomayor was quoting In re Duncan, 139 U. S. 449 (1891). Duncan also emphasized a point relevant to Trump, as well as to some of the Trump justices’ other recent decisions: “while the people are thus the source of political power, their governments, National and State, have been limited by written constitutions,” in which the people “have themselves thereby set bounds to their own power, as against the sudden impulses of mere [temporary popular] majorities.”
The SCOTUS majority’s two Trump decisions of 2024 call to mind John Adams' prophecy regarding the French Revolution (on the back of which Napoleon rode to power and then sacrificed millions of lives to his lust for power): "Dragons Teeth have been sown" and they will "come up Monsters."
What Mike calls the Plutocrat-Theocrat coalition I have been calling the coalition of the Flat-taxers and the flat-Earthers, or the Dow Jones and Bob Jones wings, or the Social Darwinists and Young-Earth creationists.
My take: if an ISL (or other outcome critical) issue arises, Roberts will look at the threat to his 9 member Court. If the Dems get the House and Senate he will be more likely to try to keep Harris out. If he feels secure in his majority he can let Harris have the WH, knowing he can trash any laws/regs that come along.
The unconstitutional and political “opinions” of the MAGA justices are not legitimate. What is the plan as more illegitimate opinions are issued, and our country slides further into destruction and lawlessness? We just can’t be passive and watch it all happen. We must rise up and refuse to abide by these opinions, and carry on as if the politicians in robes don’t exist. Step one.
Regarding Trump's disqualification to hold federal (or state) office, we (the sovereign people and our public servants) should heed the Constitution, especially in light of the unconstitutional conduct of SCOTUS justices deceitfully trying to help Trump reign again. Our Constitution was specifically amended after a bunch of insurrectionists in office tried to rip it up and rip our country apart.
The Fourteenth Amendment is clear and emphatic: "No [such] person" (including Trump) who took "an oath" to "support the Constitution of the United States" and then violated it by "engag[ing] in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" can hold any federal or state office." Congress was given two roles here. First, "Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." Second, Congress with federal law may (and must) prescribe what constitutes the crimes, above. Congress clearly did the latter and clearly did not do the former.
18 U.S. Code § 2383 made "Rebellion or insurrection" federal crimes.
"Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto" clearly "shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
With Trump v. United States, SCOTUS justices blatantly helped insurrections withhold evidence and postpone prosecution past the date of this election. No matter what happens on election night, our Constitution requires the current President to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and to "the best of [his] Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," including by "tak[ing] Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Article VI of our Constitution also required all "Senators and Representatives" and "all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States" to "support this Constitution." So they all swore (or affirmed) that every day every way possible they "will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
The Constitution limits even the power of the sovereign people to put an insurrectionist back in office.
In Fin. Oversight & Mgmt. Bd. for P.R. v. Aurelius Inv., LLC, 590 U.S. 448 (2020), Justice Sotomayor authored a concurring opinion. She emphasized that “this Court has recognized” repeatedly that “the distinguishing feature” of our “republican form of government” is “the right of the people to choose their own officers for governmental administration, and pass their own laws in virtue of the legislative power reposed in representative bodies, whose legitimate acts" (laws enacted by Congress) "may be said to be those of the people themselves.”
Justice Sotomayor was quoting In re Duncan, 139 U. S. 449 (1891). Duncan also emphasized a point relevant to Trump, as well as to some of the Trump justices’ other recent decisions: “while the people are thus the source of political power, their governments, National and State, have been limited by written constitutions,” in which the people “have themselves thereby set bounds to their own power, as against the sudden impulses of mere [temporary popular] majorities.”
The SCOTUS majority’s two Trump decisions of 2024 call to mind John Adams' prophecy regarding the French Revolution (on the back of which Napoleon rode to power and then sacrificed millions of lives to his lust for power): "Dragons Teeth have been sown" and they will "come up Monsters."
What Mike calls the Plutocrat-Theocrat coalition I have been calling the coalition of the Flat-taxers and the flat-Earthers, or the Dow Jones and Bob Jones wings, or the Social Darwinists and Young-Earth creationists.
My take: if an ISL (or other outcome critical) issue arises, Roberts will look at the threat to his 9 member Court. If the Dems get the House and Senate he will be more likely to try to keep Harris out. If he feels secure in his majority he can let Harris have the WH, knowing he can trash any laws/regs that come along.
The unconstitutional and political “opinions” of the MAGA justices are not legitimate. What is the plan as more illegitimate opinions are issued, and our country slides further into destruction and lawlessness? We just can’t be passive and watch it all happen. We must rise up and refuse to abide by these opinions, and carry on as if the politicians in robes don’t exist. Step one.