If the 2020 presidential election has taught us anything, it’s that radical progressives, who seemingly make up the majority of the Democratic Party these days, are willing to do anything to prevent former President Donald Trump from getting another four years in the White House. Given that revelation, it’s no surprise that two top Democrats are throwing their support behind a new theory saying Trump could be disqualified from running for the highest office in the land due to the 14th Amendment.
According to the Daily Caller’s Katelynn Richardson, “Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff of California and Tim Kaine of Virginia backed the idea that Trump could be blocked from the 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which maintains that anyone who ‘engaged in insurrection; cannot hold elected office, according to Axios. Free Speech For People, a Democratic-aligned group, also sent letters to secretaries of state in key 2024 states last week claiming Trump should be removed from the ballot.”
The man not-so-affectionately known as “Shifty” Schiff, stated during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki” over the weekend that the disqualification listed in the 14th Amendment “fits Donald Trump to a T.”
“If you engage in acts of insurrection or rebellion against the government, or you give aid and comfort to those who do, you are disqualified from running,” Schiff went on to say during the program. “It doesn’t require that you be convicted of insurrection. It just requires that you have engaged in these acts.”
Kaine then spoke with ABC News saying there’s “a powerful argument to be made” for disqualification.
“In my view, the attack on the Capitol that day was designed for particular purpose at a particular moment, and that was to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power as is laid out in the Constitution,” he explained, pointing out that “it’s probably going to get resolved in the courts.”
BREAKING: Today, we @FSFP + @MiFamiliaVota issued letters to the chief election officials of five more states (FL, NH, NM, OH, and WI) making clear that they must enforce the constitutional mandate of 14.3 and bar Trump from the ballot. https://t.co/x03mpZlF8F
— John Bonifaz (@JohnBonifaz) August 30, 2023
However, Jonathan Turley, a law professor with George Washington University referred to the notion of disqualifying Trump from running for president under the 14th Amendment “the single most dangerous constitutional theory I have seen pop up in decades” while conducting an interview with Fox News on Aug. 22.
“Hans von Spakovsky, Election Law Reform Initiative manager and senior legal fellow for The Heritage Foundation, previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Section 3 of the amendment ‘is no longer in effect because Congress passed two amnesty acts in 1872 and 1898 as it is allowed to do under that Section to remove the disabilities imposed by Section 3,'” the Daily Caller reported.
“Moreover, Donald Trump has never been convicted of ‘insurrection or rebellion’ by any court and not by Congress either in the impeachment proceedings that were attempted against him,” Spakovsky went on to say. “These attempts to disqualify him from the ballot are unconstitutional.”
When we see liberal politicians calling for this sort of action to be taken against a conservative, we need to start asking questions. Why is the left so terrified of Trump and his supporters? It’s most likely due to the fact that if Trump is allowed to get back in the White House he will take action to remove many elements of the deep state from within the government, dismantling the apparatus they have spent decade upon decade building.
If that happens, their ability to transform America from the republic it is currently to what they think will be a utopian society based on the principles of Marx, will not be possible. Thus, they must, at all costs, keep Trump or someone like him from being placed in a position of power like the presidency.
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