Please open your Constitution, and when you find “political party”, “official nominee”, or “presidential election”, come on back and we can discuss those things.
“Please open your Constitution, and when you find “political party”, “official nominee”, or “presidential election”, come on back and we can discuss those things.”
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So the right to free speech, due process and to know the charges against one’s self, as well as the right of the people to a “republican [small r] form of government“ (which necessarily requires that candidates be able to freely address voters) - these mean nothing under our Constitution?
Look, I get that the words in your quote aren’t in the Constitution, but there are certain practical things that, even if not directly spelled out, are required by necessity in order for specifically enumerated rights to be exercised. A perfect example of that is that the 2nd Amendment necessarily prohibits the banning of ammunition for firearms, because to do so would effectively ban firearms. Similarly, this situation with a complete sham trial, in which a low-level state court was interpreting federal law in a criminal case, as well as the denial of Trump’s individual Constitutional rights, necessarily affects other rights of his, and of the people in general. Perhaps you should go back and study the Constitution a bit more - this is why we have courts, to interpret laws and the unique fact patterns surrounding them, because the law is sometimes silent and sometimes quite ambiguous.