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  • voracitude@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s fine if you feel that way personally, but it doesn’t matter; that’s not part of the requirements for triggering Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Read the text.

      • voracitude@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        I agree that “we all know he did it” is a terrible reason to take procedural action of any kind, but again: your personal feelings don’t change the fact that the text doesn’t lay out any way to actually execute Section 3, it only states the requirements for triggering it. Go ahead and quote those requirements, verbatim and in full. I’ll wait; you will find they don’t say anything about being convicted of anything.

        I’m not saying that it wouldn’t set a dangerous precedent, only that the reasons given for throwing out these cases are so flawed they’re not even specious, they’re just plain wrong.

          • voracitude@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Maybe I’m not articulating MY point well enough. If someone breaks their oath of office (and by the way that has indeed now been found to be a fact in a Court of Law), they cannot be trusted to keep their oath of office. This is not my opinion, this is written into the Constitution of our country.

            The ruling in Court is necessary, of course, for the reasons you have given. But Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require it. The text of the Amendment says nothing about convictions. That is what I am saying. If you think it does, show me the text. If you can’t quote me the text that says a conviction is required, then you still haven’t understood my point.

            Edit: bolded the part where I acknowledge what you are saying is correct, because that is important text you should pay attention to.