(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Giving Aid and Comfort to an Insurrection: UPDATE! Got the answer to my question [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-11 From, of all places, 3 conservative law professors, one of which is a founder of...The Federalist Society y’all. Who’da thunk it?! Yesterday the New York Times published an article by Adam Liptak titled, “Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6.” He quotes 3 conservative law professors, William Baude of University of Chicago, Michael Stokes Paulsen of University of St. Thomas, and Steven Calabresi a law professor at Northwestern and Yale, who also happens to be one of the founders of the Federalist Society and called the paper by Baude and Paulsen a “tour de force.”. Not linking to it cause, honestly, i’m too technologically ignorant to actually do that, hell i barely know how to use my phone. Also, i’m not sure of the usage rules on here, so i’m just gonna toss in a few quotes from the article to give you the gist and hopefully i’ve attributed them properly and someone more technologically able will do a better dive with it and provide a link to the story and/or the paper it references. “The bottom line is that Donald Trump both ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ and gave ‘aid or comfort’ to others engaging in such conduct within the original meaning of those terms as employed in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.” (did i mention that the paper Calabresi is commenting on by Baude and Paulsen is the result of a year long study done by the 2 based on a strictly Originalist interpretation of the Constitution? have fun with THAT one SCOTUS!) “The provision’s language is AUTOMATIC (caps mine)...establishing a qualification for holding office no different in principle from the Constitution’s requirement that only people who are at least 35 years old are eligible to be president.” “Section 3’s disqualification rule may and must be followed — applied, honored, obeyed, enforced, carried out — by anyone who’s job it is to figure out whether someone is legally qualified to office.” “Professor Calabresi said those administrators must act, ‘Trump is ineligible to be on the ballot, and each of the 50 state secretaries of state has an obligation to print ballots without his name on them,’ adding that they may be sued for refusing to do so.” So i guess this explains why this was not a part of the last indictment, because as the article points out, “its not a question for any jury.” Apparently, its a long and well established Constitutional duty of a certain 50 SoS’s who should be waiting on lawsuits if they don’t get their asses in gear and do their jobs. Looed through the stories on Kos this morning and did’nt see anything about this on there. if someone has already gotten on this i apologize. this seems like a pretty big deal to me tho, so thought i’d mention it just the same. Have a great day everyone! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/11/2186595/-Giving-Aid-and-Comfort-to-an-Insurrection-UPDATE-Got-the-answer-to-my-question Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/