GiddyGap@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoThe Supreme Court seems poised to reject efforts to kick Trump off the ballot over the Capitol riotapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1349arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1342arrow-down1external-linkThe Supreme Court seems poised to reject efforts to kick Trump off the ballot over the Capitol riotapnews.comGiddyGap@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square141fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down5·edit-29 months agoTldr: Their excuse is he wasn’t personally there. So it’s not saying an insurrection is ok, they’re saying trump hasn’t been proven to have participated yet. Which is why not holding presidents accountable while in office is bullshit. This shit takes so long thru the courts, a lot can change. We can’t take a decade to prosecute an insurrection
minus-squaretheprogressivist @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·9 months agoExcept it’s been proven by the courts already.
Tldr:
Their excuse is he wasn’t personally there.
So it’s not saying an insurrection is ok, they’re saying trump hasn’t been proven to have participated yet.
Which is why not holding presidents accountable while in office is bullshit. This shit takes so long thru the courts, a lot can change.
We can’t take a decade to prosecute an insurrection
Except it’s been proven by the courts already.