Trump Is Now on the Hook for 32 Counts of Mishandling Secret Documents

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Trump Is Now on the Hook for 32 Counts of Mishandling Secret Documents - Lemmy.world

Lawyers of Lemmy, let’s say he gets stuck with a fine or some trivial amount of jail time or something as a result of these charges. Is there anything about these crimes or punishments that would prevent his presidential candidacy?

Not a lawyer, but related to multiple and helped one study for the bar, so I know basically jack shit, but Section 3 of the 14th amendment:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

In short, no.

We need the Jan 6th indictment and a conviction under the insurrection act US code 2383

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

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