Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack - eviltoast
  • kava@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Lol, no. They don’t give a shit about the country or its citizens.

    Generally not a good idea to use the legal system to suppress the most popular political candidate in a democracy. They tried it with Hitler, he came back stronger. They just tried it with Lula in Brazil and likewise he came back stronger.

    To speak to the actual Supreme Court ruling, of which all 9 justices agreed… here’s the 14th amendment.

    https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/

    Here’s the little section at the bottom that basically killed this whole thing that Colorado tried

    Section 5

    The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

    Here’s the relevant part of the Supreme Court ruling

    Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse.

    I mean, how much clearer can it be? Fuck Trump but a) we’re a country of laws and if we start breaking the laws to try and stop Trump we are no better than Trump and are headed towards the same direction anyways and b) he is the most popular candidate, not just Republican but for the general election. No good will come of suppressing him, especially unlawfully