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On Bruce Ackerman and Gerard Magliocca’s Thursday, December 29 opinion essay, “Use the 14th Amendment on Trump,”:
Setting aside the challenge of achieving a simple majority in favor of implementing partisan proposals by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) and Rep. Jamie B. Ruskin (D-Maryland) let’s put Eligibility for public office under disqualification clauses and persuading the conservative Supreme Court to uphold such disqualifications. Remember, Trump has already been impeached and acquitted by Congress for his involvement in the Jan. 6 riots. Bringing this issue up again smells like a second political trial.
I am interested in such a precedent for the disqualification of future candidates.. Our constitution sets a much higher burden of a two-thirds majority of impeachment. Disqualification is no different. Jefferson Davis has undoubtedly committed treason by leading an armed insurgency against the United States, but legally speaking, treason is not clear to Trump and his role in the Capitol Riot.
The reason for holding former presidents accountable is to emphasize that no one is under the rule of law. House Democrats will not send such a message by proposing to circumvent Trump’s due process rights.
The American public is exhausted by this debate. The best course of action at this point is to trust the American public to once again determine the answer to this question, as we did in 2020 and 2022.
Srikant Paravaram Srinivasan, lilburn, georgia
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