Doesn’t matter. This is America where things like that are ignored. This is how people like Clarence Thomas can keep their job. Corruption and criminality are rewarded in America. But only if you’re in politics.
Yes. An exception would seem to be Bernie Madoff. But it wasn’t the amount of money.
He had to be punished because he ripped off other rich people.
I think he means that wealthy people get the same treatment as those in politics.
You literally ended your comment with “only if you’re in politics.”
Relax, though. We’re all on the same side here. I upvoted your original post. I just wanted it to be clear that wealthy people are also immune. They are also often rewarded for their misdeeds after they hire a PR team to spin things.
Seriously anyone remember the issue with Emoluments? They were specifically banned in the constitution, and the Government was sued over it, and then the Supreme court sat on it until Trump was no longer president and then the supreme ruled it moot. Republicans will not play by the rules.
The issue we have is that the checks for a bad actor are impeachment and elections. The founders thought “surely, elected officials would put country over party”. They were wrong there, so now impeachment is ineffective.
The founders thought “surely, voters wouldn’t elect an immortal leader”. Again, dead wrong.
Voting is really the only effective check at this point, which is why Republicans try to undermine it at every turn. Vote in every election!
If only we could vote out a Supreme Court member. But ironically those that sit on the highest court in the country are held accountable by nobody, and serve for life.
I hope you mean immoral which while being really bad would not be as bad as an immortal ruler.
I hereby officially declare Donald J. Trump ineligible to hold office, under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.
There, I fucking did it. Challenge me in court, you orange bastard.
Perhaps one of the most utterly retarded constitutional arguments possible
Vox
Stopped reading right there
Aw sweety, just because you don’t like hearing something doesn’t make it propaganda. Which part of two conservative lawyers from the federalist society are publishing an article about Trump’s ineligibility to run again do you think isn’t true?
I definitely don’t want the guy to run, but allowing the government to decide who is allowed to run for a third of the government is a dangerous thing
We’ve had laws around who can run for office since the founding of the US.
You must be born in the US, you must be over 35, you must not be convicted of impeachment. You can’t have tried to succeed from the US.
There are other laws that have effectively banned who can run. Most states have ballot access laws.
Rules about who can run aren’t dangerous, so long as they are fair. Barring someone from participating in democracy that has tried to subvert it is more than fair.
I don’t understand your argument, it’s not the government, it’s the laws of the nation.
No different than why a non-US citizen or someone under 35 cannot hold the office.
Technically, a 25-year-old can run for office of US President but not hold it.
