Posted on 08/20/2023 9:02:17 AM PDT by lowbridge
Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.
The latest salvo came Saturday in The Atlantic magazine, from liberal law professor Laurence Tribe and J. Michael Luttig, the former federal appellate judge and prominent conservative,
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“The people who wrote the 14th Amendment were not fools. They realized that if those people who tried to overturn the country, who tried to get rid of our peaceful transitions of power are again put in power, that would be the end of the nation, the end of democracy,”
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Not all in the legal community agree with the pair’s constitutional argument – and what the scholars are proposing would need to be tested in court.
Yet Luttig and Tribe’s writings capture a conversation about the Constitution and the 2021 insurrection that is likely to grow heading into the 2024 election season.
They and others base their arguments on a reading of part of the 14th Amendment, a post-Civil War provision that excludes from future office anyone who, previously, as a sworn-in public official, “engaged in insurrection or rebellion … or [had] given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the government.
The pair write: “Having thought long and deeply about the text, history, and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment’s disqualification clause for much of our professional careers, both of us concluded some years ago that, in fact, a conviction would be beside the point.
“The former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the resulting attack on the U.S. Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as president ever again.”
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Fake libtard legal scholars
Same type that lied about Humper
So...just like when Hillary fought back after 2016? Oh wait...
“Legal Scholars” is just a fancy term for people who are afraid of work.
BS, Biden should be barred for committing treason.
CNN is a threat to democracy.
It used to be in this country that you were innocent until PROVEN guilty…guess that’s from a bygone era!
These same constitutional “scholars” should be banned from the United States of America after first stripping them of their American citizenship and deporting the traitors.
CNN and “Legal Scholars”. Same thing as Drunken and Circle Jerk.
“Laurence Tribe and J. Michael Luttig” of course coming from the commie left.
My thoughts exactly. Hitlery should’ve been barred over the email server and Benghazi.
Ridiculous! The only thing I can see that would bar him is if he can prove he actually won the last time, which would mean he’d be running for an illegal third term this time.
But somehow I don’t think the Dems would be willing to go with that strategy…LOL!
Exactly, it’s just another arm of the propaganda machine of the rat party.
People who tried to overturn the country
Anyone who questions rigging an election
Marxists don’t like that
Anyone being labeled a “scholar” by CNN has just been outed as a mindless idiot.
These happen to be the same “constitutional scholars” who have been against every single thing Trump has said or done over the past eight years. They also happen to be the ones who have supported every single thing done by the democrats over the same years. It matters not that they have had to do a reversal of their previous legal positions. These “scholars” are partisan hacks who will do and say anything to condemn Trump and everything to excuse Biden.
I trust nothing they say.
Anyone see the switcharoo here:
“Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency”
“The latest salvo came Saturday in The Atlantic magazine, from liberal law professor Laurence Tribe and J. Michael Luttig,”
More dishonest propaganda
Most legal “scholars” are partisan h8ers. Fascists to boot.
Fortunate then for President Trump, who sought to prevent the left from overturning the country. And yes, allowing the left to contrive their way into power is proving to be the end of the nation.
Of course that is what they have wanted all along.
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