As the impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump continues on, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not rule out another avenue to punish the former president if he
Section 3 of 14th amendment not an easy fix in preventing former President Trump from running again, if impeachment fails
Constitutional expert on impeachment By Karly Tinsley | February 9, 2021 at 10:20 PM MST - Updated February 9 at 10:20 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - With the impeachment trial unlikely to lead to a conviction, Democrats may have a Plan B to keep former President Trump from running again.
It’s a part of the Constitution that hasn’t been used in decades, section three of the 14th Amendment.
University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy Associate Professor, Chad Westerland, said when teaching the 14th amendment, they hardly talk about section three because it hasn’t been relevant, until now.
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:16 am on February 10, 2021
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Put this one in the “we had to burn the village to save it” column of bad ideas … again. Despite the obvious unconstitutionality of the plan, McClatchy reports that Democrats still want to keep the so-called 14th Amendment Option in reserve in the all-too-certain case that the impeachment trial results in an acquittal for Donald Trump. Democrats want to defend the Constitution by violating one of its core controls on congressional power, it seems:
House and Senate Democrats may push ahead this week with a censure resolution to bar former President Donald Trump from holding future office over his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, anticipating acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, several sources familiar with the matter told McClatchy.
Recall Representative Perry | PennLive letters
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
U.S. Representative Scott Perry must be recalled.
For months he engaged in a Faustian effort to reinforce Donald J. Trump’s incessant claim that a “rigged” election had stolen his God-given second term, which culminated in the sedition of January 6, 2021.
One might argue that a president who ignores Presidential Daily Briefings, berates “my generals” while praising Putin, and golfs one in every five workdays during his presidency is still protecting the nation he’s sworn to defend (though it’s incomprehensible that businessman Perry would employ Trump, a pathological liar; textbook narcissist and sociopath.)