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getagrip_already

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9. Well, other issies aside, it would certainly open up

Tue Feb 6, 2024, 10:20 AM

Feb 2024

The courts schedules for when to hold trials. If he can no longer hold office, a judge doesn't have to take his first amendment rights to campaign into consideration in holding trials or handing out contempt or sentencing.

You know that's why he has gone to the fallback of "I can still run, and the congress can decide later".

It's another ploy to stay out of jail until after the election when he could be pardoned, at least federally if a republican won.

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Well, other issies aside, it would certainly open up getagrip_already Feb 2024 #9