Clever ploy on Biden’s part (although probably someone else came up with the idea). Trump can now be ruled ineligible to hold office. He can litigate it but the states with Democratic attorneys general can refuse to allow his name on the ballot in 2024.
There we go again. Somebody muddies the waters. The president has the right to declassify anything he wants . Which he did do according to Kash. And if they’re going to use this crap that Biden reclassified and not telling Trump it’s called entrapment. Muddy the waters muddy the waters. How many times have we seen this play? Always ends the same way which is Trump gets beat up and counter punches and games over. It must be really really tiresome to be a perpetual punching bag from people who couldn’t carry his jockstrap.
If the Supreme Court says he’s on the ballot, they’ll have to put him on.
Actually, regardless of what is written in the statute, it cannot be used to bar asomeone from becoming President. And SCOTUS has already ruled I’m correct! There was a case which tried to bar someone from running for Congress using language of a federal law. SCOTUS ruled that nothing could be added to the requirements for being in Congress beyond what’s already in the Constitution. That case referred to Article criteria, the corresponding ones for President are in Article 2, a constitutional parallel so close even a wise Latina would admit it. And the original impeachment clause allows the option of disqualification, which was used on some but not all (eg. Alcee Hastions) of those impeached AND convicted. As they failed to convict Trump they twice failed there.
The only exception I can see to the original constitutional eligibility criteria is the insurrection clause of the 14th. It does allow for disqualification and as an amendment would potentially apply to Congress and President. However it allows and requires Congress to activate it via enabling legislation. Which legislation Congress cancelled over a century ago. Until if and when Congress passes a new trigger for it that gun can’t fire. And as the rats have tried to use that gun to disqualify MTG and others from the midterms and universally failed at lower court level they should know better.
There is no legal basis for that. There is no provision in the constitution that allows any other laws to restrict who can be a candidate for President.
Democratic AGs may do all kinds of things, but trying to bar candidates from one party from being on the ballot seems like a very big leap that anyone with a shred of common sense would immediately realize was a terrible idea.