“Removing a candidate from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is not something my office takes lightly,” California’s Democratic secretary of state previously said.

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      6 months ago

      Yes, we agree. Not exactly what I meant. I’m all for Trump being completely excluded, but the GOP has made a habit of using what’s put in place to avoid any wrongdoing to try and disrupt the good ones from getting things done.

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        Yeah that’s something I’ve been thinking about lately. I worry about creating tools for them to misuse. But then again, Democrats didn’t use faithless electors against Trump, they didn’t try to violently steal an election- Republicans did that all on their own. So… 🤷🏼‍♂️

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          They haven’t been playing by the rules for a while now, so there’s no point in a good faith attempt to fix politics anymore.

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      I think the danger they are talking about is that they might only need an accusation of insurrection, not a conviction to do this.

      Think about Congress’s impeachment probe into Biden without evidence.