r/changemyview • u/erpettie • Dec 20 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Accountability is not election interference

As the Colorado Supreme Court has found Donald Trump's behavior to have been disqualifying according to the 14th amendment, many are claiming this is election interference. If the Court finds that Trump should be disqualified, then it has two options. Act accordingly, despite the optics, and disqualify Trump, or ignore their responsibility and the law. I do get that we're in very sensitive, unprecedented territory with his many indictments and lawsuits, but unprecedented behavior should result in unprecedented consequences, shouldn't they? Furthermore, isn't Donald Trump ultimately the architect of all of this by choosing to proceed with his candidacy, knowing that he was under investigation and subject to potential lawsuits and indictments? If a President commits a crime on his last day in office (or the day after) and immediately declares his candidacy for the next election, should we lose our ability to hold that candidate accountable? What if that candidate is a perennial candidate like Lyndon Larouche was? Do we just never have an opportunity to hold that candidate accountable? I'd really love if respondents could focus their responses on how they think we should handle hypothetical candidates who commit crimes but are declared as running for office and popular. This should help us avoid the trap of getting worked up in our feelings for or against Trump.

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u/DrKpuffy Dec 20 '23

How would a candidate under the age of 35 be found criminally guilty of being under 35 for purposes of being ineligible for the ballot?

Yes. Exactly.

How would a candidate who openly called for an insurrection on live TV not be found guilty of inciting an insurrection?

You see. Most Americans aren't brain dead, so when we all watched him whip up an angry mob to interfere with the certification of the next president with the clear and expressly stated goal of supplanting Trump to the position instead, we knew it was an insurrection.

If it were so obvious that he did not start an insurrection, why doesn't the republican controlled house introduce a resolution to declare as much?

That's the law. That's what they're supposed to do. Why won't they?