• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    He is able to be elected president again, as (for better or worse) being a convicted felon is not one of the disqualifying criteria for that office.

    Several US states invoked the 14th Amendment as grounds to disqualify him, but the Republican-controlled Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that only the US Congress has the authority to make that determination. Which, divided as Congress is right now, could never happen.

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      3 months ago

      It’s an incorrect ruling. States have always been the judges of legal qualification for office.

      Congress has it’s own method to disqualify someone: impeachment.

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        3 months ago

        I agree, but unfortunately the Supreme Court’s word is (literally) law. There is no avenue to contest that short of passing another amendment with more teeth than the 14th, or waiting for a less-biased court to re-evaluate the ruling.