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To: hank ernade

For those thinking Bill of Attainder;

Attainder would be charging Trump with insurrection because some of his supporters committed insurrection.

Attainder can be described as guilt by association.


77 posted on 01/14/2021 1:46:37 PM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: hank ernade
Attainder would be charging Trump with insurrection because some of his supporters committed insurrection.

Not quite. Attainder would be enacting a law which punished Trump by name without an actual trial (or necessarily even a crime). Congress can't enact a law which says "hank ernade is a bad person, and should be locked up in the federal penitentiary for 20 years because he's a bad person and we don't like him." The British Parliament could and did pass such laws.

Punishing someone's family members by such a law is the same thing, but the real issue is that there is no trial or opportunity to mount a defense involved.

79 posted on 01/14/2021 1:50:05 PM PST by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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