Can a convicted felon run for President?

[Sugarmaggie]

Oh yes. I’m forecasting this will be the scenario in 4 years. Will the repugnants line up behind him? 100%. Souls have been sold for power and money.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. You can't vote but you can be president?

[DonaldsRump]

6. Totally absurd. I agree.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. He could run

but if he’s convicted for crimes related to the insurrection, the Congress would ban him from running for office using the 14th amendment. All it takes is a simple majority, so it would definitely pass.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Yes. Kinda like Tim Kaine's (with Collins) idea to censure for insurrection and

Then use 14th to claim he can't hold fed office again. They ran that by Lawrence Tribe. Not sure what his specific opinion was, but obviously he didn't say "no way." Or they wouldn't have kept on going.

[Shell_Seas]

2. Anybody can run for president, if they were born in America and over 35.

[DavidDvorkin]

20. You don't have to be born in America

Just be a natural-born citizen as opposed to a naturalized one.

[Shell_Seas]

22. So. Army kids count. I get it.

[DavidDvorkin]

23. It goes even further than that

If one parent of a child born abroad is a citizen, that's sufficient.

https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/

[Shell_Seas]

24. Like ted cruz? Ok

[Polybius]

25. It's never been challenged, because there's never been a need to

If Ted Cruz were to get elected, it would be. Not saying they would rule against him though, of course not.

[onecaliberal]

3. Yes and yes unless we get lucky and that orange murdering POS finally dies.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

4. My Mom would say, "He should run for the border!"

[Towlie]

5. Google is scary! I typed "requirements" and "requirements to be president" popped up.

 
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USA.GOV

According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, the president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, be at least 35 years old, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.

Nothing there about felons.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. Not if Trump is in prison.

[Angleae]

10. Didn't stop Lyndon LaRouche

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. True.

We can only work even harder to make sure more Democrats are elected in 2022 and 2024. Our work continues.

[nsd]

14. Eugene Debs was the Socialist candidate for president in 1920.

At the time, he was in prison for his opposition to American involvement in WW1.

[NotASurfer]

8. Not barred by the Constitution

I remember former Rep. Trafficant, from eastern Ohio, who was expelled from the House ahead of his conviction on racketeering charges, running for office from prison two years later. He trotted out his version of a "witch hunt" explanation and I think pulled respectable numbers tor a third-party candidate. If Individual 1 learns anything, he will realize the third party route is a bad idea from this example. Not that he learns anything, or that he would allow that 3% of the popular vote in fact loses.

[Angleae]

11. Unless the conviction is for insurrection or rebellion the yes he can.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Not mass murder huh

[Chainfire]

16. It is exceedingly hard to campaign from prison. ;)

[Buzz cook]

17. Can they run from a prison cell?

If a prisoner wins, do they get out to go to work release?

[andym]

18. He could even serve from the "big house" rather than the Whitehouse

let's hope not.

[Thekaspervote]

19. He may say he's going to run, but that's only to keep the grift up

the small donors are giving him money and right now he keeps all of it. And that’s how he wants to keep it. If he announces, then the money falls under FEC rulings.

The really big donors...the mercers, kochs are done with him. The corporations will not back him, Sheldon aldeson is dead. He fleeced the rnc...there’s not going to be enough money for him to run a campaign

[Hekate]

21. He can run

But he can’t hide