To the editor: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC Berkeley Faculty of Regulation is correct that the U.S. Supreme Courtroom should shortly rule on the Colorado Supreme Courtroom’s resolution disqualifying former President Trump from that state’s poll.
The Colorado court docket was carefully divided, however concluded that the 14th Modification disqualifies Trump from holding workplace. The decrease court docket, which it overruled, had tried the semantic equal of one-handed clapping by discovering that its limitations someway didn’t apply to the presidency.
Nevertheless, these rulings agree that Trump engaged in sedition.
Let’s think about the unique intent of the 14th Modification, ratified in 1868. The Congress that handed it definitely conjured up the macabre situation of disgraced Accomplice President Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. Senator, re-elected to workplace and returning to the Capitol for to be taken below oath. as soon as once more. Who might presumably consider such an oath?
Now think about Trump taking the oath of workplace once more in 2025.
John B. Ashbaugh, San Luis Obispo
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To the editor: Two issues ought to occur.
First, the Supreme Courtroom, led by its originalists, should determine that the Colorado ruling was appropriate and applies to all the nation.
Second, if Trump is disqualified from operating once more, Biden ought to instantly announce that he is not going to run for re-election both.
Kennedy Gammage, San Diego
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To the editor: Colorado Supreme Courtroom justices are going through threats throughout each mainstream and fringe social media platforms for his or her resolution disqualifying Trump from the poll.
This alone underscores why Trump should not be exempted from the rule of regulation. Worry should not diminish the Structure and our democracy. Incitement to revolt and violence can not go unanswered with a get-out-of-jail-free go.
Be robust, my fellow residents. Our democracy will depend on it.
Eileen McDargh Evins, Dana Level
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To the editor: I’m struck by the letter writers who argued that excluding Trump from the Colorado poll conflicts with our nation’s “sacred” proper to vote.
Sadly, this level of debate is curious. Historical past reveals that it’s not a proper to vote on this nation in any respect. It’s definitely not enshrined within the US Structure, with the exception that nobody may be expressly barred from the poll field on the idea of race or intercourse.
Within the First World, America stands out as the one one with one among its two main political events actively partaking in huge voter suppression. So one ought to assume that our infamous advocacy of “suffrage” is solely empty rhetoric.
Those that insist that Trump stay on the poll must discover a extra compelling argument to permit this rebel to run.
Bob Teigan, Santa Susanna