These Justices have one job: To protect the Constitution of the United States.*
Donald Trump attacked the sovereignty of the people of the United States. Allowing him to even appear on the presidential ballot is a failure to protect our Constitution. How hard is that to understand?
Apparently, it’s beyond the intellectual capability of our Supreme Court Justices to understand how this guy incited and participated in an insurrection, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the country. Over a thousand enemies of which have either pled guilty or been convicted. Some of them of seditious conspiracy, that is, conspiracy to overthrow the government.
And some of them think this should be up to Congress. They have no qualms about interpreting the law in any other case. They’ve been interpreting the Constitution for a couple centuries. But interpreting the Constitution in this case is too hot a potato, so they pitched it to Congress.
Fine. We need a bill in Congress disqualifying Donald Trump from office. All offices. Even the office of the presidency.
Let’s have a vote. I want to see which Republicans are Americans and which think Donald Trump is qualified. Put them on the horns of that particular dilemma.
This goes back to the problem I pointed out earlier. This Supreme Court is an illegitimate Supreme Court. It has Justices picked by someone who didn’t get a majority of the popular vote. Once you allow someone who doesn’t have the backing of the American people to start picking Justices, you undermine the moral authority of the Court. Why should I, as an American citizen, have any confidence in their decisions? Their take on the matter started drifting away from American values the moment we put up with this illegitimate procedure. That’s how we got Dobbs, for example, which has scant support among the actual American people.
Meanwhile, I renew my call for the DOJ to put Trump’s co-conspirators on trial, as I mentioned here and here. The DOJ could support democracy with just a little effort. I’m not even asking them to take on the many state laws inhibiting democracy.
I already did that.
* One top-level job. Obviously, there are mechanics, like deciding cases between the states or between a state and a foreign entity. But, I stand by my characterization that defending the Constitution is the job of the Supreme Court.