“Yes, he literally did what the law literally says in the way it was literally meant, but… uh… umm… look over there!” *the judge leaps out a window*

This fucking country.

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    "On Tuesday, Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Redford said deciding whether an event constituted “a rebellion or insurrection and whether or not someone participated in it” are questions best left to Congress and not “one single judicial officer.” A judge, he wrote, “cannot in any manner or form possibly embody the represented qualities of every citizen of the nation — as does the House of Representatives and the Senate.”

    Your entire job is to literally do that you absolute fucking loser.

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    The idea of judges being “impartial” or “just interpreters of the law” in Burgerland really is a mask-off farce now. It’s just some privileged affluent asshole that decides how he feels about something that day and it has the power of law.

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    Section 3 of the amendment bars “officers of the Unites States” who took an “oath … to support the Constitution of the United States” and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” from holding federal or state office again. Wallace found that while Trump “incited an insurrection … and therefore ‘engaged’ in an insurrection,” the 14th Amendment “does not apply to Trump” because he is not an “officer” of the United States.

    nerd ummm ackshually he’s not an officer shapiro-gavel

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      Yeah it’s not the office of the president of the united states, it’s the… uh… the supply closet of the president of the united states!