(September 17, 2023 at 2:40 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote:(September 17, 2023 at 2:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That depends. If the charge is insurrection, sedition, or treason, you are correct. No other crimes carry that ban, to my knowledge.
With that, I learned some time after making the post you quoted that he might be barred from running for president IF he is convicted on the insurrection counts.
I mean the other two things you mentioned make sense too, but yeah, I must have missed something when I first heard that.
The bar on insurrectionsts holding office is Constitutional. The bar on traitors or rebels holding office are in the laws barring those acts, iirc.