Robert Reich, former US Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, published an op-ed in the Guardian on Monday, calling on states to refuse to put former President Donald Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential ballot.
Reich’s article, “Trump committed treason and will do it again. He should be barred from running,” claims the former president should be disqualified from returning to public office, citing acts of “treason.” He urged state officials to take action to prevent Trump’s re-election.
According to Reich, Trump committed “treason” when he “refused to budge and instead baselessly claimed the election was stolen from him, then pushed state officials to change their accounts, plotted to appoint bogus voters and tried to persuade vice.-the president refused to certify the polling station votes, demanded access to voting machine data and software, got his congressional allies to agree to question the electoral votes and therefore move the decision to the House of Representatives and summoned his supporters to Washington on the day the electoral votes were to be counted and urged them to march to the United States Capitol, where they manifested”.
Reich noted that “all three branches of the federal government have described the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol as an ‘insurgency’.”
Section Three of the 14th Amendment prohibits anyone convicted of engaging “in an insurrection or rebellion” against the United States from holding public office.
He praised the Jan. 6 committee for its “thorough work” and touted the recently amended Vote Count Reform Act, which altered the way electoral votes are certified for presidential elections, as it “has filled some of legal loopholes”.
Reich painted a hypothetical nightmare scenario for left-leaning America in which Biden wins re-election in 2024, but Trump refuses to budge and instead recruits “secretaries of state and governors who are loyal to him to disrupt the machinery election to make sure he wins.” He claimed that Trump might even try to “appoint electors who will vote for him regardless of the outcome of the popular vote” because the former president’s “loyalists” now hold much stronger positions in state and federal government.
Reich added that the Republican Party is made up of politicians willing to “bend or ignore any rule” to get the former president re-elected. He insisted that Trump is “less constrained than he was in 2020” and urged states to step in and prevent him from running.
“The secretaries of state, who in most cases are responsible for deciding who gets on the ballot, should refuse to put Donald Trump’s name on the 2024 ballot, consistent with the plain meaning of the third section of the 14th amendment to the US constitution.” Reich concluded.
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