this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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"Yes, he literally did what the law literally says in the way it was literally meant, but... uh... umm... look over there!" *the judge leaps out a window*

This fucking country.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"On Tuesday, Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Redford said deciding whether an event constituted “a rebellion or insurrection and whether or not someone participated in it” are questions best left to Congress and not “one single judicial officer.” A judge, he wrote, “cannot in any manner or form possibly embody the represented qualities of every citizen of the nation — as does the House of Representatives and the Senate.”

Your entire job is to literally do that you absolute fucking loser.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

No, no, no, who is he to judge? A matter this judicious and having to do with justice is simply too much for him to make a decision on, it's not like that's the description of his job or anything

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Section 3 of the amendment bars “officers of the Unites States” who took an “oath … to support the Constitution of the United States” and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” from holding federal or state office again. Wallace found that while Trump “incited an insurrection … and therefore ‘engaged’ in an insurrection,” the 14th Amendment “does not apply to Trump” because he is not an “officer” of the United States.

nerd ummm ackshually he's not an officer shapiro-gavel

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's not the office of the president of the united states, it's the... uh... the supply closet of the president of the united states!