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In reply to the discussion: On SCOTUS ruling that Colorado, a state, doesn't have the authority to take trump off its ballot. [View all]brush
(53,925 posts)must enact a law to allow insurrectionists to serve in office in Congress, as an elector, as a military officer or in office in any state. Congress has not done that so Sec. 3 is self-executing.
This was done after the Civil War so confederates would not try to infiltrate the government and the military to work from within to overthrow the government again.
IMO SCOTUS was right in ruling that one state doesn't have the authority to take a candidate of the ballot because if that candidate wins, he/she wouldn't preside over that state as president.
What SCOTUS should've ruled IMO is that an insurrectionist should be rule ineligibe to be on a ballot or serve in every state, which is what self-executing Sec. 3 says.
As it is now, trump, all his henchmen and all the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol, can now run for office.
Not a good thing.