Former acting Solicitor General Neil Katyal said Friday on MSNBC's “Deadline” that the idea that former President Donald Trump is not subject to disqualification from voting under the 14th Amendment is “wrong any day of the week.” Stated.
“Given Donald Trump's actions and the fact that a Colorado judge has labeled him an insurrectionist, I think we can win,” Katyal said. “I absolutely defend what the Colorado Supreme Court did. I think we can do it,” he said. But this is defensible primarily on the basis of conservative principles, particularly the original intent of the Fourteenth Amendment. ”
He added: “Trump's arguments, in fact, are all about liberal methodologies in his brief. They are not based on text or rigorous construction of the founders' intentions. It's a policy argument like, “It's terrible for the court and for the country to have someone removed from the ballot.'' So, Alicia, I really understand this very powerful path. And that's shown by two conservative scholars, William Bode and Michael Stokes Paulsen. University of Pennsylvania Law OverviewThe bottom line is, look, this is what the framers of the 14th Amendment wanted in the 1860s. ”
Katyal added, “The last thing they wanted were insurrectionists. And the technicalities that represent that argument, like saying that President Trump is somehow exempt from the 14th Amendment.” The idea is that legal terminology is poppycock, which means that any day of the week is wrong, as understood by the Framers at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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