Lots of People Are Disqualified From Becoming President
Prohibiting Trump from running again is no outlandish measure, but an expressly constitutional remedy.
by Richard D. Bernstein
Feb 04, 2021
4 minutes
Some advocates for Donald Trump have argued that, regardless of what the former president did, it is too late for the Senate to convict him and disqualify him from being president again, because his term has expired. Others argue that it is too early—that Democrats are improperly trying to supplant the will of the people by preventing Trump from running for a second term in 2024. Trump’s new lead lawyer, David Schoen, has made both arguments.
The too-late argument has already . The too-early argument is just as wrong and dangerous. The notion behind it is that no one should prevent voters from deciding whom they want
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