At a bare minimum, the headlines themselves are enough to raise blood pressure and trigger a gag response. I don’t really need to read the body of the articles.
The firestorm over the Colorado Supreme Court decision is predictable, but the argument being made for Biden to criticize the decision mystifies me. I guess Fox News hotheads and other critics are taking this route because it seems obvious (to them) that we should all be outraged by this “overreach” or “misread,” i.e. this legitimate reading and interpretation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Of course the Right is incensed, but they’re supposed to be. That’s their role here. They’re also blinded by their mindless support for Trump, who clearly incited an insurrection on January 6. The provision in Article 3 applies to him. It has to. He gets no pass because he was President. He has created this situation himself, because he just can’t help himself.
If anything, the statute or rule or provision should apply to Trump in a more forthright way because of the position he held—he was entrusted with the highest office in the land. He promised to uphold the Constitution and he clearly decided not to do that.
And furthermore, a majority of us know he’s an incompetent blowhard, a puppet who had no business being POTUS the first time, never mind running for the office again!
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