Could we pass legislation whereby convicted felons and insurrectionists

[Evolve Dammit]

Are ineligible to run for public office?
Seems pretty sensible? And the irony that the party professing the “rule of law” in decades past, would be totally silent or in direct opposition to such a ruling at this pivotal point in our history. What do other countries do differently?

[BrianTheEVGuy]

1. The constitution already bans insurrectionists from federal office

It’s very clearly there in the 14th Amendment.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. But CO Supreme Court was overruled by SCOTUS

[BrianTheEVGuy]

3. Yes

The alt-right SCOTUS likes to ignore black-letter law that forbids GOP criminality.

[J_William_Ryan]

4. "It's very clearly there in the 14th Amendment."

What’s clear in the 14th Amendment is that Congress is authorized to enact legislation to enforce Section 3 – which Congress has failed to do.

So yes, it’s possible to pass legislation whereby convicted felons and insurrectionists are ineligible to run for public office – the problem is Republicans would oppose such legislation.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. They would, perhaps, have been all in decades ago but now are only

Driven by lust of power that I can tell. In which case, our Democracy, Constitutional rule of law and the Bill of Rights are very endangered species.

[WarGamer]

6. Bad idea...

You want a prosecutor in Burning Cross County Alabama to file make believe charges against a DEM politician, get the automatic guilty finding and they're banned from running?

Bad idea.

It's called unintended consequences.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Talking about the reality of what has transpired.