• TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but the Supreme Court at some point is going to need to rule one way or the other on the 14th amendment issue, and States like Colorado and now Maine breaking from the rest it’s going to make that more clear. A presidential election isn’t going to work if the potential GOP nominee isn’t allowed on several state ballots for even the primary. And several of the states where Trump was allowed onto the primary ballot recently said that once he is officially the nominee that the case could/should then be tried again to disqualify him from the ballot for the presidential election on the fact he has been ruled an insurrectionist and the 14th would then apply.

    It’s only “blue states” for now, but each is a push for the Supreme Court to make a ruling of law, else we have a banana republic where the GOP candidate isn’t even on the ballot (and would be blocked from a write in campaign also).

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      1 year ago

      Things don’t turn into “banana republics” because they won’t put a well known traitor on the ballot. The GOP may still have a candidate that isn’t an active traitor, it’s not like they can’t run another candidate.

      Your shitty ‘slippery slope’ argument means fuck all, if they replace the Democratic government with a Dictatorship. You know that. You’re ignoring that, and making a bad faith argument.