The dispute comes from Colorado — but it could have national implications for Trump and his political fate.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    The most surprising thing to me, a non-lawyer, listening to this was that Mitchell (Trump’s lawyer) was arguing Trump is ineligible to be president right now. But Congress could potentially vote to make Trump eligible to be president by voting to override the insurrectionist clause. So therefore Trump shouldn’t be kept off the ballot now, because he could be made eligible later.

    Murray (lawyer for Colorado) had a pretty good point on that later basically saying that any criminal conviction has the potential to be pardoned. That doesn’t mean that we should act as if the conviction has no merit.