The states of Colorado in Maine want to remove Trump from the presidential ballot because of Section 3 of the 14th amendment which says:
"*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.*" The case now goes to the Supreme Court, I know that Trump supporters want the court to keep Trump on the ballot, but* if it's OK to just ignore the 14th amendment, why isn't it also OK to just ignore the second amendment and confiscate all your guns?* But the court has never been very good at self consistency, and given the makeup of the court at this time I would be astonished if it didn't rule in Trump's favor; hell the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas was part of the mob that attacked the capital on January 6 as they were in the middle of counting the electoral votes to determine the next president. That is a clear-cut conflict of interest so if Thomas had any ethics he'd recuse himself from voting on this question, but I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell of him behaving ethically. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 7tt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv26Srw-uLSYAYYiEL7dr4q_JyzZARPOSu9To4UNjEnNBg%40mail.gmail.com.
