TRUMP vs THE CONSTITUTION

For weeks I have been mulling over a piece about the disservice Joe Biden has done to this country by defaulting on his stated intention to serve but one term as president. That self-serving failure is directly responsible for the too-short Harris campaign and the legitimate criticism that her selection was not the result of a rigorous nomination process.  His selfishness has led to the coming Musk/Trump administration. 

Biden clearly is not fit to be president today and the notion that he would strive to be president for the next four years is further evidence of his mental decay. Power feeds brainworms.

But instead of developing the details of that condemnation here,  I offer up a legal argument that the United States Constitution bars Donald Trump from being the next president of the United States. The details leading to that conclusion were neatly set out in a piece written by David Schulte and Evan Davis, two former Supreme Court clerks, and recently published in The Hill, (600,000 readers.) The Schulte- Davis argument has been picked up by former DOJ prosecutor Glenn Kirchner, who has 800,000 followers on YouTube. The argument that Trump is barred from federal office by the Fourteenth Amendment is powerful, and in my judgment, absolutely correct, despite its certain ultimate ineffectiveness. Kirchner presents the case clearly and persuasively, and there is no point in my trying to outdo him. You can find it at:

https://youtu.be/5OCN-OvYsW0?si=xm9wPZmglrZ-R89U

(Note: For some inexplicable reason, I cannot get Blogger to accept this link as clickable. I have spent hours on this problem to no avail. Solution: I surrender. Just copy the link and paste it on a new page in your URL box.)

Happy New Year.

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