(December 29, 2023 at 9:40 am)Nanny Wrote: I find the orange idiot insufferable, but Maine got this dead wrong. Trump is technically not running for president at the moment. He's running to be his party's nominee for president. A politician from the other party decided Republicans can't nominate who they choose. Bad optics for sure, but this is doomed to failure under judicial review.
Trump has not been adjudicated to have taken part in an insurrection. He is charged, and with that come a presumption of innocence, even for the cheeto.
According to some interpretations of the relevant clause, adjudication isn’t necessary. It’s - constitutionally - enough to have ‘…engaged in insurrection or rebellion…’.
Any removing him from the primary ballots makes a good deal of legal and political sense. If he stays on the ballot and crushes it in the primary, and is then removed from the general, it gives him ammunition about ‘ignoring the will of the voters’, blah blah blah.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
