Supreme Corp rules on 14 Amendment case

The decision was unanimous that Trumpler could not be excluded from the Colorado ballot. They wrote: "Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse." 

The 3 liberal Justices though wrote: 

"The majority announces that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of federal enforcement. We cannot join an opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment."

Congress though has long ago enacted 18 USC 2383 on rebellion or insurrection. Which of course would would require a federal indictment and court trial to determine the issue.  So I'm not sure what other "particular kind of legislation" they are referring to that "shuts the door on other potential means of federal enforcement."

Lawrence Tribe responds to this noting that without such legislation insurrection then is unenforceable. And that Representative Raskin and others are working on just such a law. However given that Speaker Johnson would never allow such a proposal to be brought up, in effect the Corp's decision will remain unenforceable until such time that a functional Congress, if that ever happens, enacts such a law.

Bottom line: Presidential insurrection remains on the table. And given Trumpler we can be certain he will engage in it again to attain and maintain his dictatorship. We are hurtling toward hell in a speeding handbasket. 

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