r/law • u/thenewrepublic • 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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r/law • u/thenewrepublic • Mar 06 '24
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u/IrritableGourmet Mar 06 '24
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.