Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Three Constitutional Questions

Here are three questions I think we should be asking:

1. What does it tell you when Congress and SCOTUS can easily dig up this particular clause of the 14th Amendment, but apparently believe Amendments 1 through 10 can be altered or ignored at their pleasure?

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.

2. After spending much of the past four years whining that the Electoral College should be abolished, why are the Trump accusers now so vociferous in their support of it? Is it because the "wrong" person won in 2016, but the "right" person won in 2020?

3. Why use impeachment to remove Trump when para. 3 of the 14th Amendment might accomplish the same thing? Is it because there is no remedy for an impeached president, while the disability of the 14th Amendment could be removed by a future Congress?

Just asking ...

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