Technically he has yet to be found guilty of insurrection in the court of law. Right? Isn’t that case still ongoing? If so, this would make sense cause we assume he’s innocent until proven guilty
As of right now the only way he’d be disqualified is if he were charged and convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection – which explicitly lists disqualification from holding office as part of the punishment. Even in his DC criminal case he has not been charged with this.
This ruling means Congress needs to either specifically pass a bill disqualifying him or laying out other circumstances for disqualification which would apply to him.
The Constitution says nothing about them being charged. It talks about them “engaging” in that behavior but there is no requirement for being charged with or convicted of that behavior. The Supreme Court is making this all up as they go.
That’s what the supreme Court does though, no? We have a legislative branch that leaves all the decisionmaking to the supreme court, time and time again. It’s why we are where we are with so many decisions of the past eight years, because there is no law, and it’s left to the opinions of folks appointed by politicians.
So the state supreme court ruled that a fertilized human egg is a human life and killing it is murder. Now the legislature is, in essence, saying murder of those innocent, unborn humans in this circumstance is okay. They care about innocent human life, but not when it might cost them votes, I guess.
Since self defense is a valid defense for a murder charge, murder itself is not against the constitution. In theory, the state legislature could pass legislation making “they looked at me funny” a valid defense for murder too if they wanted, so saying IVF makes murder okay should fly. I guess the state supreme court could say that this legislation runs afoul of the equal protection clause of the US Constitution since it only applies to some people, but who knows. Considering that these judges just make shit up these days they could strike it down because they passed it on a Wednesday.
So what are the odds that these voters will vote out the people that caused this mess in November? This is a rhetorical statement, as this is Alabama. The state that almost voted for a child molester over a Democrat.
In a speech that included quotes from the Bible, the TV show Reacher, and the lyrics of 90’s rapper Vanilla Ice, Republican state Rep. Ernie Yarbrough introduced an amendment to the bill to add that “immunity will not be provided to a person who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child.”
LMFAO Please tell me he used “ice ice baby” in a speech about frozen embryos 🤣
So essentially they didn’t address one of the biggest issues, what to do with the remaining embryos. Seems pretty on brand for conservative legislation.
From what I gathered the legislation was simple enough with just being two paragraphs long (imagine a world where there’s not 50 pages of bullshit and 2 ear marks to vote on) that it reads that they’re able to do whatever they want without getting in trouble for it. Keep em or toss em.
“Life begins at conception” but embryos outside a woman’s body have no personhood rights, while embryos within a woman’s body (even those outside her uterus, in the case of ectopic pregnancy) have personhood rights that exceed those of the woman. It’s not about the embryos, it’s about controlling women’s bodies.
And it’s really a viability argument, because if you do nothing, the IVF ones will eventually thaw out and die, and the ones in utero will live. Yet they’re unwilling to follow that argument to its logical extension of a 24-week leeway for abortion.
Instead of correcting their falsified claims of rape, New York Times is trying to find out which person has leaked information about their stories and systematically harasses Arab employees to expulse any dissent against israel.
Transparency for themselves would do as much good as the one they dream of having from the government. But no, instead they go on a witch hunt. I hope the guild does not let that go gently
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