This is one of the two best essays I’ve read so far in favor of employing the “insurrectionist ban” of the 14th Amendment to prohibit Donald Trump from becoming president again. (The other was from George T. Conway III, co-founder of ‘The Lincoln Project’.) Both writers reject the specious argument that there may very well be violent repercussions from the destructively rambunctious horde of two-legged animals that form the Trumpian ‘base’.
They argue that the risks to the welfare of the republic outweigh the terrible costs of mindless harassment, threats and potential violence. They also argue that the heavily conservative justices who sit on the Supreme Court lean to the originalist view of the Constitution. That view stresses the primacy of the text of the document.
They both agree that the plain language of the Amendment leaves little room for a more expansionist, liberal interpretation, suggesting that the Court is most likely to uphold the ban on the former president’s assuming the powerful office he desperately covets. With the possible exception of the guy married to Ginni Thomas.
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