Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.

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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sure, but we shouldn't need a legal argument.

We only need a reasonable electorate.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We have a reasonable electorate, inasmuch as Trump has no chance of ever winning the popular vote and never did. What we don’t have is a rational electoral system where all votes are equal.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We have a reasonable electorate

    Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Trump got something like 74,000,000 votes.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Out of 240,000,000 eligible voters

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