When he tried to get his case transferred out of Georgia state court to federal court, Trump argued he was entitled to do that because he was a federal officer performing his official duties. But now that he’s facing removal from state ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which forbids officers of the U.S. who have taken an oath to support the Constitution but engaged in insurrection from holding federal public office, he’s claiming he’s not an officer of the U.S. He can’t have it both ways.

@georgetakei No way for Trump to have it both ways.
As the (ex-)"chief constitutional officer of the Executive Branch" of the United States Donald J. Trump is naturally subject to constitutional Amendments, incl. the Fourteenth Amendment's Section 3.

Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731, 102 S. Ct. 2690, 73 L. Ed. 2d 349, 1982 U.S. LEXIS 42

457 U.S. 731 (1982)
No. 79-1738.

★★★Supreme Court of United States★★★:

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The President occupies a unique position in the constitutional scheme. Article II, § 1, of the Constitution provides that "[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States . . . ." This grant of authority establishes the President as the [***]chief constitutional officer of the Executive Branch[***], entrusted with supervisory and policy responsibilities of utmost discretion and sensitivity. These include the enforcement of federal law it is the President who is charged constitutionally to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed";
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