Government
Sep. 14, 2023
The mug shot is an ominous warning of what’s to come should Trump win the election
If Trump takes office while the charges are still pending against him, he’s likely to move to quickly get rid of them. He would almost certainly appoint an attorney general who would fire Smith, and he could theoretically attempt to pardon himself – an untested legal idea. A Trump win would also throw the justice department into uncharted legal territory.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
A forthcoming major law review article (The Sweep and Force of Section Three) by William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen to appear in 172 U. Pa. L. Rev. in 2024, argues that Section Three of the 14th Amendment “forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in insurrection or rebellion.”
Notwithstanding a “range of misperceptions and mistaken assumptions” the section’s full legal effect ...
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