A Long-Shot Push to Bar Trump in 2024 as an 'Insurrectionist'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Democrats and liberal groups, determined to find a way to bar former President Donald Trump from returning to office, are preparing a variety of ways to disqualify him, including drafting new legislation and readying a flurry of lawsuits seeking to use an obscure clause in the Constitution to brand him an insurrectionist.

The plans amount to an extraordinarily long-shot effort to accomplish what multiple investigations of Trump have failed to do: foreclose any chance that the former president could regain power, whether voters want him to or not. They reflect the growing concern among Democrats and liberal activists seeking to find a way to end the political careers of the former president and the officials who helped him try to cling to the presidency, including through several new and in some cases arcane strategies.

Democrats and some anti-Trump Republicans have grown fearful that Attorney General Merrick Garland will not pursue criminal action against Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, culminating in the violent storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Even if Trump were indicted and convicted of a crime, there is no law barring even an imprisoned felon from becoming president.

At the same time, Trump is the widely presumed front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. His popularity with his party’s base appears undiminished by the high-profile set of House hearings this year revealing the breadth of his efforts to upend a democratic election.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/long-shot-push-bar-trump-184631000.html

[Deuxcents]

1. Is the 14th Amendment the "obscure clause"

Just trying to understand this long shot discussion.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Good news, but I doubt the gangster will be well enough

To survive campaigning a year from now.

[Frasier Balzov]

3. This probably depends on the exact terms of the agreement

which he has made with the devil.

[Justice matters.]

4. They don't mention he could be doing time in a State prison by then?

No possibility for any corrupt "self-pardon" in the first day in office...

Besides, republcans would hate their Inauguration Day held in the complex's parking lot and an orange jumpsuit...

Question of how History would judge them...

[Wrestlefire769]

5. The longshot is that there are now enough in Congress who believe Biden is the interloper.

In short, the concept of one man's terrorist, another's freedom fighter.