This weekend....I sat and read the 14th Amendment...beginning to end:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
There's a lot of chatter over how people envision it to work against Trump.
So after you read the whole piece....it says precisely who in the federal government is affected by the Amendment. I read it several times and finally came to the reality....it talks about judges, congressional folks and officers...even at the federal and state level. The two positions it doesn't really cover? President and Vice-President.
The Elector words? Meant for the Electoral College.
Yeah, it's just odd.
You would think they would have written it into the text for the Constitution....but obviously felt it wasn't necessary.
So what happens as these cases move forward? All of them will hit some barrier with the Supreme Court, and being told that the text of the 14th don't cover the President. The Supreme Court will then make it a blunt case.....you can't remove Trump's name from the ballot.
I'm not saying the problems are over....I still think the Republicans will create some unworkable convention and try to put DeSantis in the lead position.
