George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽It’s finally clear as day. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has announced he will run as an independent for president. He’s backed by GOP funders, and his goal is to peel away Democratic voters from Biden. Don’t be fooled by shiny third party traps. To stop Trump, we need to unite behind Biden. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Trump.
Richard Michael Blaber@georgetakei Trump shouldn't be in the running anyway! Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says he isn't eligible to run for President, & there are two conservative legal scholars saying so. If he's allowed to run, there is something VERY seriously wrong with the American political system! He should never have been allowed to be President in the first place!
volkrisThat’s not what Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27#xiv3
The Constitution: Amendments 11-27
[get-content name="print-page-left" include-tag="false" /] Constitutional Amendments 1-10 make up what is known as The Bill of Rights. Amendments 11-27 are listed below. AMENDMENT XI Passed by Congress March 4, 1794. Ratified February 7, 1795. Note: Article III, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 11. The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
@volkris I suggest you read the article in The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/) & the paper in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=154065122118096007005003068095082113055012055001044017064069069099009012127000074104122033059034098017008106003010030088000082104037039036017099024000097028101090037016062009091111005083025079087031098070103108069003113082089116071091070070022001085&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE). I defer to the expertise of these people. Do you?
shrug I suggest we read Section 3 of the 14th Amendment if we want to know what it says.
If other sources reliably quote it great! If they don’t that’s a shame. But no matter whether they’re reliable or not (and The Atlantic is hardly reliable), the amendment says what it says.
We can read it for ourselves, so let’s go right to the source to see what it says.
@volkris I'm not at all sure YOU'VE read it, & I'm certainly not sure you've understood it. If you don't trust The Atlantic (why not, pray?), then trust the conservative legal scholars who wrote in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Trump took an oath to "preserve, protect & defend" the US Constitution when he was sworn into office as POTUS. He then instigated, & took part in, an "insurrection & rebellion" against the United States. He trashed the Constitution he'd sworn to uphold!
Why would I trust conservative legal scholars, particularly if they are identified with a bias so intently, when I can go straight to the document?
It’s like, either I can look outside and see that it’s not raining for myself, but hey, let’s go trust these umbrella sellers instead!
If these people have their agenda so front and center, that doesn’t make them more trustworthy compared to our own eyes.
We can clearly see that the amendment says nothing about running for office. Anyone saying otherwise is making stuff up that’s not in the clear text of the amendment.