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 He can, though, because "officer" is defined differently in the two laws (one a statute, the other in the Constitution).

I wish it were otherwise.

@msbellows @georgetakei Thank you. That makes it make (sort of*) sense.

*I hate it when The Law behaves like this. I want to put it, the abstract overarching concept of The Law, into Time Out; or make it write "I will not let slimy shitweasels off on arcane technicalities" one hundred times on the blackboard.