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 heโ€™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, heโ€™s claiming heโ€™s not an officer of the U.S. He canโ€™t have it both ways.
@georgetakei How is the Commander in Chief not a federal officer?
@VisualStuart @georgetakei
I wonder, could the founders not even conceive of such a criminal being elected president in the first place? Was it a failure of imagination?
@nancyann @VisualStuart @georgetakei
There were FAR fewer people, in a much smaller land. Law & order was much more simple & straightforward. Society was tighter, and an "outlaw" wasn't tolerated for long. The Founding Fathers could never have imagined such a hedonistic, sloppy, willfully ignorant society.
@lolonurse
And the failure is ours.
@nancyann
We've grown so large, & our people have become SO lazy in terms of being civically involved. Most of the "reporters on the street" who ask random people who their congressman is, or state senator, have no clue. It makes me sick.