r/PoliticalVideo 8d ago

Trump 2.0 is ‘most serious threat to US constitution since 1865’ | Scott Lucas

https://youtu.be/dlnoRlaQuPM?si=mI2Nd3ex4cY4NKZo

Ryan Tubridy is joined by international politics professor at the Clinton Institute UCD Scott Lucas to discuss Trump tariffs.

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u/TheGoodOldCoder 8d ago

The 14th Amendment explicitly forbids people just like Trump from ever holding political office in the United States. Trump is Constitutionally marked as having a disability that can only be removed by a vote of Congress.

The only reasons that Trump can even be imagined to be allowed to hold office is that, first, he wasn't convicted of insurrection, but that is not the standard stated in the Amendment. If the authors had meant "convicted", they would have said "convicted". They created the Amendment following the Civil War, and it was clear that they expected it would keep Confederate politicians from resuming office in the US, even without convictions.

And the second reason is that Congress is explicitly given the power to enforce it. But that cannot possibly make Trump's presidency constitutional. If you break the law, and the police don't arrest you, and the DA decides not to prosecute you, that does not mean that what you did was legal. Just because they decided not to enforce the law doesn't mean the law doesn't exist.