No Criminals For President

[Baron2024]

Trump is a convicted criminal and should never be near the White House ever again. We need to amend the Constitution to state that a convicted felon cannot be President. It is an obvious thing that the Founders did not put into the Constitution. But they were aware that a Tyrant could get into power. They created a system of checks and balances to deal with that. But we do need to make it a law that a convicted criminal can not be President. Seems obvious. It would also go along well with the Supreme Court reforms that Joe Biden just put forth. So no criminals for President.

[RainCaster]

1. No criminals for any federal office

I'm tired of having so many in our Senate & Congress. They all need to be gone.
And while we're at it, let's ban lobbying too. If we really want to clean up our government, that would be a big part of it.

[Baron2024]

2. Agreed

No convicted felon should be able to hold Federal elective office.

[Dear_Prudence]

3. King, Abernathy, and others

A city judge in Birmingham granted an injunction against all antisegregation protests in the City of Birmingham in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr and Ralph Abernathy led a march in defiance of the injunction. They were both convicted of contempt of court. They shouldn't be among those considered disqualified from the highest office.
And, as the 'war on drugs' advanced, Black people were (are) disproportionately targeted for drug enforcement. Meanwhile, dope smoker Clinton served in the White House and college kids passed doobies around on the quad while campus police looked the other way. So the justice system isn't fair and I wouldn't want everyone who has been convicted to be excluded from the presidency. However, I take your point. Could we could draw the line at conviction on 34 or more felonies? Only a rich white criminal like Trump could still be out of jail and running for any office, so that seems fair.