This Supreme Court unanimously rejected Colorado’s attempt to keep donvict off the ballot for reasons articulated in the 14th Amendment. It also accepted and codified the Nixon Doctrine: “If the president does it, it’s not illegal”. The glacial pace of American jurisprudence assures that any allegation of crime will spend years wending i…
This Supreme Court unanimously rejected Colorado’s attempt to keep donvict off the ballot for reasons articulated in the 14th Amendment. It also accepted and codified the Nixon Doctrine: “If the president does it, it’s not illegal”. The glacial pace of American jurisprudence assures that any allegation of crime will spend years wending its way through the courts, however rapidly the crime was committed. And it may never have its day in court, depending on the integrity or somnolence of the AG. Couple theses realities with a corrupt, dysfunctional political system and the path to fascism is paved.
This Supreme Court unanimously rejected Colorado’s attempt to keep donvict off the ballot for reasons articulated in the 14th Amendment. It also accepted and codified the Nixon Doctrine: “If the president does it, it’s not illegal”. The glacial pace of American jurisprudence assures that any allegation of crime will spend years wending its way through the courts, however rapidly the crime was committed. And it may never have its day in court, depending on the integrity or somnolence of the AG. Couple theses realities with a corrupt, dysfunctional political system and the path to fascism is paved.
It was a miscaarriage of justice. But it left open the Congressional option. Read Feathers of Hope.
I wish your analysis wasn't so correct. But it is; I feel that we are doomed.