• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    25 days ago

    What makes his presidency illegal? Peacefully protesting in hopes that they are going to overturn the election results seems like a pipe dream at best. Also Trump does not seem like the kind of man that will be swayed by protest of any kind.

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      24 days ago

      Section 3 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution:

      No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

      The argument is that Trump, having incited the Jan 6 insurrection, is automatically ineligible to hold office.