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Remove Donald J. Trump's Disability for the Office of President

Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:09 pm
by James E. White
“But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV

And yet:
"responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress and not the States" [my emphasis])

Above from Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf.

The Supreme Court flipped Congress's responsibility from being "remove such disability" to effectively inverting it, via "for enforcing," to "declare such disability" and then the Supreme Court grabbed the "remove such disability" to themselves and (ostensibly) did it. They also had the gall to charge costs to Colorado for its sworn or affirmed office holders obeying the Constitution. The Supreme Court's "and not the States" illogically also undoes States' (via their office holders) requirements to obey at least this one Amendment XIV section. All the Supreme Court's Amendment XIV perversions are logic (and plain English language understanding) failures and are wholly un-Constitutional violations of Amendment IX and Article V. The Supreme Court cannot modify the Constitution, only interpret it when there is an ambiguity or unanticipated new application for principle (e.g., telephone vs. Amendment IV). There is no ambiguity in the "But Congress…" sentence quoted above. By common acknowledgement, neither Robert E. Lee nor Jefferson Davis could have run for President.

I propose that as many people as want to present a draft bill to their congressional representatives both now and again after January 3(?), 2025 and strongly urge their representative to place their signed draft bill “in the hopper” or “with the clerk” as appropriate. Encourage the submission of the bill to an appropriate committee ASAP, then if not returned in a few days file discharge petitions to get the bills back for full house votes where (hopefully) they will not get the required 2/3.

Example:
An Act to Remove the Amendment XIV Sec. 3 Disability of Donald J. Trump.
Whereas at least Colorado, Maine, and Illinois found Donald J. Trump to have participated in an insurrection therefore let it be enacted,

Section 1. The Amendment XIV Sec. 3 disability of Donald J. Trump to take the Office of the President of the United States of America occasioned by his participation in an insurrection is hereby removed.

I would guess that in neither the current Congress nor the 2025 one the requisite 2/3 will not be achieved presumably leaving the next president to be JD Vance. (who can then present better Cabinet, etc., picks)

Additionally:

Given the above Constitutional quote and the “overriding” Supreme Court total, out of nowhere, failure to simply refer the case to Congress I propose a second bill be introduced in the House of Representatives by as many Representatives as can be gotten to that the entire Supreme Court membership be impeached. The Senate can, of course, convict all or some or (unlikely) none of them for what is clearly not “good Behaviour” as is clearly exhibited by the above noted failure to follow the Constitution and turn the issue over to Congress.

To contact your Congressional representatives visit Congress.gov, scroll down to "Current Members of Congress," and select your state (or other area).