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A Colorado judge has ordered the state’s top elections official to place former President Donald Trump on the 2024 primary ballot, rejecting a lawsuit from a group of voters who argued the Republican frontrunner is constitutionally ineligible to hold office under a Civil War-era insurrection clause.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“After considering the arguments on both sides, the Court is persuaded that ‘officers of the United States’ did not include the President of the United States,” Wallace wrote. “It appears to the Court that for whatever reason the drafters of Section 3 did not intend to include a person who had only taken the Presidential Oath.”

This has got to be the stupidest reasoning. How is the President of the United States not considered an officer of the United States?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

"Commander-in-chief of the entire military is not an officer of the military." lolwut.