James Gleick on Nostr: What would the people who wrote, and ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment have thought ...
What would the people who wrote, and ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment have thought about this Supreme Court decision?
Would they have thought, oops, our bad. We didn’t write that clearly enough.
They didn’t want anyone who had participated in an insurrection ever to hold public office, much less be allowed to run for President. They said that as clearly as they could.
They didn’t specify an enforcement mechanism—they trusted us future people to work out the details.
We’ve let them down.
Would they have thought, oops, our bad. We didn’t write that clearly enough.
They didn’t want anyone who had participated in an insurrection ever to hold public office, much less be allowed to run for President. They said that as clearly as they could.
They didn’t specify an enforcement mechanism—they trusted us future people to work out the details.
We’ve let them down.