• gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    8 months ago

    What I don’t understand about the ruling is that congress has already exercised their power. Donald Trump was impeached by congress in 2021 for inciting an insurrection. The states are only enforcing the law based on the ruling a of the House of Representatives and a majority of the Senate.

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      8 months ago

      Removal from office takes a supermajority in the Senate, so maybe disqualification via the 14th does as well. That would presumably depend on Senate rules that currently don’t cover it.

      A simple majority ought to be sufficient, but it also ought to be sufficient for just about everything, but it’s not.

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          8 months ago

          14th didn’t say it’s up to Congress either. The Supreme Court said that, and now it’s up to Congress to decide what that looks like. The constitution lets the legislative bodies setup their own rules for how a lot of things function.

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              8 months ago

              I’m not sure I even disagree with the idea that it needs to be done at the Federal level. If individual states can do it, then Republicans will start declaring that everything they don’t like is an insurrection (as their rhetoric already does on many issues) and remove Democrats from ballots.

              Whether that means it has to be the legislature and what that looks like are different questions.

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                8 months ago

                So we’re just gonna allow a corrupt party to simply decide what words mean on their own?

                Hold up, George Orwell on line three…