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Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6 (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Expect multiple lawsuits if this paper's conclusions are acted upon.

“Section 3’s disqualification rule may and must be followed — applied, honored, obeyed, enforced, carried out — by anyone whose job it is to figure out whether someone is legally qualified to office,” the authors wrote. That includes election administrators, the article said.

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,” **he said, adding that they may be sued for refusing to do so.

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“The question of should Donald Trump go to jail is entrusted to the criminal process,” he said. “The question of should he be allowed to take the constitutional oath again and be given constitutional power again is not a question given to any jury.”