• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    True. Remember this was originally written for congressmen and senators from the South who started the Civil War. They didn’t need to be convicted of treason, they did it openly. That’s why the amendment was written that way.

    When you openly try to stop an election (not some secret spy “treason”), it should 100% apply. Just like former slaves didn’t need to go to court to be freed. The 13th Amendment (and the Emancipation Proclamation) just freed them.

    • Efwis
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      1 year ago

      As far as I’m concerned, he should be disqualified regardless. I’m actually afraid if he gets back in office, he will find a way to declare Marshall law and then subvert the constitution all together. Allowing him to become king of America. And making us all his subjects. I wouldn’t even put it past him to disband congress and scotus