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Both the UK and the US have codified the proposition that certain people are ineligible for office. Who they bar is based on prior experience. In the case of the US it was the civil war - they understandably decided they didn’t want senior Confederates who had taken up arms against the Union, renewing their mischief via elected office.
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No one took up arms on Jan 6th, and my previous post outlines how pathetic any claims of an “actual” insurrection, vis-à-vis a defacto coup-de-grace are sensationalist bollocks.
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Both the UK and the US have codified the proposition that certain people are ineligible for office. Who they bar is based on prior experience. In the case of the US it was the civil war - they understandably decided they didn’t want senior Confederates who had taken up arms against the Union, renewing their mischief via elected office.
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Yes, I’ve often looked at Trump and thought….Robert E Lee reincarnated, orange git.
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These are the questions the Supreme Court of Colorado has considered, and judged yes and yes. The senior election officer in Maine reached the same conclusions. She is constitutionally entitled to do so in that state. In both cases, and in other states presently considering the issue, it will all end up in front of the federal Supreme Court for final judgment.
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Yes it will end up in the Supreme Court, but it wasn’t the “senior election officer” it was the Maine “ Secretary of State”. It wasn’t an unelected apolitical civil servant, it was an elected official.
A democrat blocking a republican (debatable) candidate.
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I believe based on what I read that Trump’s actions amount to insurrection, and the incitement of it. However as I’ve already said IANAL and neither are you - I don’t think you have grounds for saying the matter is ‘obviously’ anything.
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Well I refer you to my opinion.
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At which point you’ve vanished down a conspiracy rabbit hole and there’s little hope of further useful discussion.
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Which is a bit disappointing from you, as it’s a shut up and shut down tactic. I think given the actions of the democrats in the last 2-3 yrs, it’s a valid observation.