Are we a nation of laws or not?

Created
Sat, 02/09/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Sat, 02/09/2023 - 00:30
Or just when conservatives find it convenient? Fourteenth Amendment challenges (and counterchallenges) to Donald Trump’s disqualification for any public office in these United States are beginning to multiply. On its face, the post-Civil War constitutional amendment disqualifies Trump from running again for president over his involvement in the Jan. 6 attempted coup. Multiple conservative legal experts agree. Activists have already challenged Trump’s eligibility in North Carolina and Florida. And so? (CNN): New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan, a Republican, said earlier this week that he asked the state’s attorney general to examine the matter and advise him on the “provision’s potential applicability to the upcoming presidential election cycle.” The attorney general’s office said it was “carefully reviewing the legal issues.” In the statement, Scanlan said he wasn’t taking a position on the disqualification question and was not “seeking to take certain action” but was going to study the matter in anticipation of lawsuits. Oh, they’re coming (Associated Press): The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then “engaged” in “insurrection or rebellion” against it. A growing number of legal scholars say the post-Civil War clause applies to Trump after his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and encouraging his backers to storm the U.S. Capitol. Two liberal nonprofits pledge court challenges should states’ election officers place Trump on the ballot despite those objections. Just days ago in Michigan, “litigious activist Robert Davis” asked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to declare Trump ineligible. Michigan state…