Supreme Court will take up Trump’s eligibility to run for president - eviltoast
  • Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    They’re going to find some way to let him run. They’ll overturn the trial judge in it being insurrection, they’ll say the amendment needs legislation to back it up, they’ll say say the word “the” doesn’t really mean “the” like it did in 1492 or some such nonsense. It’ll be 5-4 or 6-3, because the fascist right has the judiciary captured.

    America entered the legal phase of fascism during Trumps presidency, and Biden and the democrats weren’t able to correct it during this last best chance to do so. In my humble, ignorant, foreign opinion, this is it, this will be the next step in the long coming codification of fascist rule in America.

    Good luck, hope I’m wrong.

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      11 months ago

      ‘or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States’

      well see, the thing is, the presidency is both civil and military… it doesn’t say “and/or” so clearly it’s an exclusive ‘or’ (aka xor) and exempt…
      - the super ream court

      ( ╯︵╰)

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Garland tried his best to bury it but the J6 Committee forced his hand.

      Honestly the J6 Committee is one of the very few recent examples of thy government actually functioning.

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      11 months ago

      I think Trump is useful to the conservative movement either way, but it’s probably better for them if he’s a martyr.

    • El Barto@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Nope, America entered the fascist era with Obama. No, no, I’m still talking about the GOP!!

      Fuckers shut down the government TWICE just because they didn’t like a black man as a president. And do you remember this one time when Obama was giving a speech and some Republican idiot shouted “you lie!”?

      Those were omens for things to come.

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      11 months ago

      My only hope is that, somehow, they have verifiable already ruled against Trump before in other cases and filings.

      And also that maybe ruling for him with Biden still in office now would set precedent to potentially backfire on Republicans somehow.

      Both are stretches.