Posted on 01/14/2018 12:21:29 AM PST by caww
Chelsea Manning, the former US army private who was imprisoned for passing information to WikiLeaks, has filed to run for a seat in the US Senate.... federal election filing, made on Thursday, confirmed Manning’s intention to run in the November elections as a Democrat.
Manning, now 30, was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in jail, for her part in the 2010 leak of more than 700,000 documents and videos to news outlets including the Guardian and the New York Times....Manning, who was formerly known as Bradley and who attempted suicide while in prison, is now a writer and activist who has been a columnist for the Guardian.
Her sentence was commuted by President Obama
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Well after reading any article in my morning paper, it seems Manning’s Felony Convictions are not a bar to running for the U.S. Senate. Although at the local and state level they would be.
Has anyone with a previous felony conviction ever been elected to a Federal office, like the Senate or House????????
I could not find either post so I added it's name to both threads' keywords.
Did it legally change it's name? Someone needs to verify that. If not it violated the law when it placed it's name on the document.
well this should give an indication of how f-ed up the good folk of Maryland have become.
Alcee Hastings (D) Florida was impeached and removed from his judgeship for bribery, and was subsequently elected to the House, where he sits to this day.
Please stop referring to Mr. Manning as “it”.
You should not join in the delusion that he is anything other than a man.
That I knew about, but was he convicted of any Felony? Although as I remember on Impeachment doesn’t that in itself preclude someone from ever seeking or holding Federal Office again?
Disqualification from holding an office of trust or profit under the United States is a penalty which the Senate may impose at its discretion.
However, membership in Congress is not an office “under the United States”, it is granted by the People, or until 1916 in the case of the Senate, by the States.
Don’t take this lightly. The way the people in Maryland vote, this could be serious. It doesn’t matter that Chelsey Manning is a mixed up soul to people who vote the way they do. He/she could well win in Maryland.
AFAIK conviction of a felony does nor disqualify in the US senate.
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