It's going to come down to the Supreme Court deciding if the President is covered in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The argument has already been made that the President and Vice President are Officers, who are included. It's just a matter of the SC ruling it that way.
That clause is all sorts of fuckled up, language wise. Whoever wrote it was a hack.
We need to remember that the Supreme Court doesn't just look at what the Amendment says verbatim. They take in the intent of what was written. The argument is going to be that obviously the President and Vice President of the US would be barred from running for office again if they participated in an insurrection against the US. Why would they not be? So yeah, the intent of the Amendment is called into question, and the SC is going to have to decide if POTUS and VPOTUS are included. I would be very surprised if they voted against them being included. And I agree with that because I wouldn't want to leave that door open in the future, to another POTUS or VPOTUS that was accused of insurrection.
But I think that the SC will rule that the person needs to be more than just accused of insurrection. They'll need to be charged and found guilty of it for the 14th Amendment to apply to them.
It's going to come down to the Supreme Court deciding if the President is covered in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The argument has already been made that the President and Vice President are Officers, who are included. It's just a matter of the SC ruling it that way.
That clause is all sorts of fuckled up, language wise. Whoever wrote it was a hack.
We need to remember that the Supreme Court doesn't just look at what the Amendment says verbatim. They take in the intent of what was written. The argument is going to be that obviously the President and Vice President of the US would be barred from running for office again if they participated in an insurrection against the US. Why would they not be? So yeah, the intent of the Amendment is called into question, and the SC is going to have to decide if POTUS and VPOTUS are included. I would be very surprised if they voted against them being included. And I agree with that because I wouldn't want to leave that door open in the future, to another POTUS or VPOTUS that was accused of insurrection.
But I think that the SC will rule that the person needs to be more than just accused of insurrection. They'll need to be charged and found guilty of it for the 14th Amendment to apply to them.