Ah yes, the juice is loose…I didn’t really follow all of that trial. But he was convicted in the civil trial, and still had to pay. If you ask me, id say that it does run afoul of double jeopardy, they just get around it by saying “criminal trial vs civil trial” and “murder vs “wrongful death”. The law says you can’t be held in jeopardy twice for the same offense. If he was acquitted of murder, then why did he have to pay? Again, I didn’t follow the trial.
It doesn’t compare to this because at the end of the day, OJ was still charged with with nothing and found liable for that thing. What the left are doing is trying to charge trump with one thing, but give him the penalties of another charge.
So who determines that he “engaged in” then? One court will say he did, another will say he didn’t. Also, you keep forgetting about section 5, which says that ALL of the provisions of the 14th amendment HAVE to be enforced by appropriate legislation. That means Congress has to take an action for section 3 to have any relevance. In other words, article 14 is not self enforcing.
Ok…I thought we were talking DISqualification here. You know what I meant.
Yes, it does. Article 1 section 4 prescribes that states are responsible for the time and manner of election of senators and representatives. It doesn’t give the state power to remove a candidate from the ballot via disqual. That is reserved for the Congress via A14S3 and S5
Ok, so it was a civil matter? Then he was already held in jeopardy via the impeachment trial.
But, I disagree with your assertion here, since the penalty as prescribed by the congressionally passed law has prison time as one of its penalties, it has to be a criminal charge and trial. Also, we’ve still not gotten to the fact that Trump has yet to be charged with the relevant statutes to be disqualified.