I can understand how a population of millions of laymen (aka "voters") might hold a spectrum of views between "yea" and "nay" on Trump eligibility."Ballot Chaos: Trump eligibility court cases begin!" S2 #77
But this flip-flop from a pro has caught me by surprise.
An About-Face on Whether the 14th Amendment Bars Trump From Office
Adam Liptak - Mon, September 18, 2023WASHINGTON — A little more than a month ago, a law professor who helped found the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, enthusiastically endorsed a new law review article arguing that Donald Trump was ineligible to be president. ...
Last week, in an extraordinary about-face, the professor changed his mind.
In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, he said he had been persuaded by an opinion article in that newspaper that the provision — Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — did not apply to Trump.
In that article, Michael B. Mukasey, who served as attorney general under President George W. Bush, focused on a part of the provision that limits its scope to people who had taken an oath to support the Constitution “as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state.”
The only category that even arguably applies to Trump is “an officer of the United States,” Mukasey wrote. But that phrase, he asserted, “refers only to appointed officials, not to elected ones.” ...
“I carefully reread the materials on whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment applies to Trump,” he said, “and concluded that it most likely does not.”
He added that politics had not figured in his thinking. “I will support,” he said, “any Republican or Joe Biden over Trump in the 2024 election.”
An About-Face on Whether the 14th Amendment Bars Trump From Office
WASHINGTON — A little more than a month ago, a law professor who helped found the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, enthusiastically endorsed a new law review article arguing that Donald Trump was ineligible to be president. The article was “a tour de force,” the professor...
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piffle“I carefully reread the materials on whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment applies to Trump,” he said, “and concluded that it most likely does not.” Mukasey
The 14th makes no distinction between "appointed" and "elected", and therefore applies to both. This nitwit Mukasey is arguing the president of the United States is not an officer of the United States. Fact is, POTUS is the CEO of the USA. CEO = chief executive OFFICER
Mukasey! You're a ding-dong! Go find a bucket your head doesn't fit into, and cram it in there anyway.