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CaptainTruth

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1. Once again Abramson just doesn't understand how things work.
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 06:45 PM
Feb 2021

He correctly notes that "incitement in a criminal trial doesn't disqualify anyone from future office," but then follows with the erroneous conclusion that means "*nothing* can *ever* be done to disqualify a president from future office for anything they do in the last 2 weeks of their term."

Um, no. Conviction in a criminal trial is REQUIRED before Section 3 of the 14th Amendment can be used to bar a person from future office. So, conviction in a criminal trial doesn't mean "*nothing* can *ever* be done," it means you've met the requirement needed to use Sec 3 of the 14th and bar them from office! It means the opposite of what he's saying, it means something CAN be done.

For whatever it's worth, I started following Seth a long time ago on Twitter. It seemed like he was good at the beginning but lately it seems like he's wrong more than he's right.

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