A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot based on the claim that he is constitutionally barred from office because of the January 6 insurrection.
Evidently, section3 of the 14th amendment doesn’t explicitly apply to US Presidents. It explicitly applies to any officers and military under the US government. I suppose legal types have to be quite specific in the basis for a ruling, if “any officers” doesn’t include the Presidency. Stepping back, it doesn’t make much sense that a President who incites an insurrection would NOT apply, but that’s how it was written back then.
Evidently, section3 of the 14th amendment doesn’t explicitly apply to US Presidents. It explicitly applies to any officers and military under the US government. I suppose legal types have to be quite specific in the basis for a ruling, if “any officers” doesn’t include the Presidency. Stepping back, it doesn’t make much sense that a President who incites an insurrection would NOT apply, but that’s how it was written back then.
I cannot comprehend that the people writing the law intended to bar rebels from all offices except the office of President…
But I guess judges can just spin things whichever way they need to as an excuse to rule they way they always intended to.