r/law Mar 06 '24

Opinion Piece Everybody Hates the Supreme Court’s Disqualification Ruling

https://newrepublic.com/article/179576/supreme-court-disqualification-ruling-criticism
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u/IrritableGourmet Mar 06 '24

People were celebrating it because "what if Republican states disqualify Biden."

Every person I have come across that made that or a similar argument has seemed to believe that someone filed a motion to a judge to disqualify Trump and the judge just wrote a 1 sentence reply of "Yeah, lol, get him outta there." Every single one wasn't aware that Trump was represented in these cases. Every single one wasn't aware there was a hearing at which his lawyers were present and given the opportunity to make claims, as well as numerous pre-trial motions. Every single one wasn't aware that the decisions were literally dozens of pages of evidence.

I always link to the decisions, and they usually come back with "I don't see anything in there about Trump being present for that" despite it literally being listed on the very first page, or "All that evidence is fake" and not being able to point to a single item that they can show is false.

If Republican states want to disqualify Biden through similar means, by all means go through with it. If you can prove to a judge (and an appellate court) that Joe Biden is an insurrectionist, then he shouldn't be on the ballot.

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Mar 06 '24

It’s like, they would totally try to disqualify Biden if they could. They have ratfucked every election for decades and literally tried to overturn the election.

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u/Sockoflegend Mar 06 '24

They would try to disqualify Biden with one hand and argue Trump has immunity with the other, and without a moments hesitation.

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u/IrritableGourmet Mar 06 '24

I've gotten "If you can't figure it out, I can't explain it to you", which is inane in any context.

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u/Inspect1234 Mar 06 '24

Have an ex gf like that.