Shy wallflower Mark Levin is going WILD over this 14th Amendment idea. He calls Tribe and Luttig "morons" who "haven't been right about anything in 20 years". He yells at Asa Hutchinson's quote. He quibbles whether the president is an "officer". He quotes a Robert Peck, founder of the Center for Constitutional Litigation saying it would be up to Congress to decide if the quadfectee* participated in insurrection.
Levin originally supported Ted Cruz:
Oh Dear – Mark Levin Credibility Melts Like Glenn Beck Tears – Levin Family is Staffer for Senator Cruz…
January 21, 2016 | Sundance | 806 Comments
There’s something initially angering that becomes very sad when a fraud is revealed. Tonight on his radio show Mark Levin was forced to admit the son of his fiance’ is a full time staffer for Senator Ted Cruz
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/bl ... ator-cruz/
Tonight, Mark Levin railed on "where the Democrat Party and Trump haters are dragging the country every damn day into uncharted waters". "A Manhattan DA bringing bogus indictments against a former president whose running for election. A phony Special Counsel who uses a documents matter and the Espionage Act". "As well as these January 6 Grand Jury charges against the president using the Klan Act, the Enron laws and financial obstruct -- that have nothing to do with this". "And the Georgia DA who apparently thinks she's a federal prosecutor which would be bad enough -- did you know her father was an active member of the Black Panthers, Mr. Producer?" "They were considered domestic terrorists trying to overthrow the country. Isn't that ironic?"
Mark Levin is a screaming, lying hack. Here's the article from Tribe and Luttig (who, unlike Levin, were actual judges). With the hollering, anger and vitriol he has over this article, in birther talk, "WE ARE OVER THE TARGET". This story is amazing:
The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again
The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.
By J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe
AUGUST 19, 2023
As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, scholars, and practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the Fourteenth Amendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation’s second founding and a new birth of freedom, contains within it a protection against the dissolution of the republic by a treasonous president.
This protection, embodied in the amendment’s often-overlooked Section 3, automatically excludes from future office and position of power in the United States government—and also from any equivalent office and position of power in the sovereign states and their subdivisions—any person who has taken an oath to support and defend our Constitution and thereafter rebels against that sacred charter, either through overt insurrection or by giving aid or comfort to the Constitution’s enemies.
The historically unprecedented federal and state indictments of former President Donald Trump have prompted many to ask whether his conviction pursuant to any or all of these indictments would be either necessary or sufficient to deny him the office of the presidency in 2024.
Having thought long and deeply about the text, history, and purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment’s disqualification clause for much of our professional careers, both of us concluded some years ago that, in fact, a conviction would be beside the point. The disqualification clause operates independently of any such criminal proceedings and, indeed, also independently of impeachment proceedings and of congressional legislation. The clause was designed to operate directly and immediately upon those who betray their oaths to the Constitution, whether by taking up arms to overturn our government or by waging war on our government by attempting to overturn a presidential election through a bloodless coup.
The former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the resulting attack on the U.S. Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the disqualification clause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as president ever again. The most pressing constitutional question facing our country at this moment, then, is whether we will abide by this clear command of the Fourteenth Amendment’s disqualification clause.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... cy/675048/
Excellent. Keep this moving through the election cycle. MAGAts will dismiss and ignore it, but for a general election it's one more thing people will think of when they vote.
Mark tweets and says the highest official that this could be used for is Senator. He said John Roberts spoke to it in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in a 2010 opinion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Ente ... ight_Board. In this opinion, Levin says Roberts said that "officers" are NOT elected officials, appointed by Article 2 Section 2 procedures**.
He thinks the question whether a president may be considered an officer of the US for purposes of this section. He says there's no certified answer to this question.
Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow
Tribe and Luttig have written a self-humiliating piece in the leftwing Atlantic Monthly arguing that the Constitution's Sec. 3 of the 14th amendment stops Trump from being elected president. This has to be one of the truly dumbest essays ever written on the subject. And it is something the Marxist left has been pushing for years against Trump. Trump aside, they are burning down one institution after another self-righteously claiming that they are standing up to tyranny and for the republic. I will address this on the air tonight.
*I'm so glad I thought about it and added Quadfecta, I looked up if there actually was a Quadfecta, had only heard about Trifectas. It opened the door for Bob's hilarious use of "Quadfectee" and I burst out laughing every time I see that. How humiliating for T****... I don't care how much he bloviates, late at night, when he's all alone, he knows he destroyed his legacy and will always be known as a twice-impeached, one-term Quadfectee. It's really a nice image after everything he put the nation through.
** If this keeps up, it needs a new topic. These are really interesting constitutional issues to me, with qualified people on both sides. Haven't studied it in detail, but I'd think that Luttig and Tribe know what they're saying and wouldn't put it in public if they had doubts.
Foggy, it might be good for the previous indicateds to put the INDICATED #X in the topic titles to make it easier for people to find each indicted. That this is something needs to be broken down to clarify indicateds about a former president is really mind blowing.
told "no, you were at J6, you can't go on the ballot for Turd Creek dog catcher."
to understand their point. Worth hunting down if one can find it. I like the idea that if some states refuse to put him on the ballot, it will force it to the courts for a decision.
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