I mean, I think you may not ylkow this, but it’s important for people with felonies to both be able to vote and run for office.
I’m not arguing you should vote for them, but if this weren’t the case, all a administration would need to tldo is convict their political opponents of felonies to effectively capture the state. For example, Bidens administration could have been far more aggressive in going after Trump specifically to prevent him from running. Maybe we think that’s a good thing. But reverse the roles. Maybe Trump goes after DNC hopefuls for felonies in the run up to 2020. The knife cuts both ways.
We shouldn’t view what is legal or illegal based on a given administrative and judicial configuration as monolithic. Our system needs to be able to mechanistically check itself against corruption. In many ways that’s currently failing, but you can see how it’s at least built into the basic structure of the system.
I mean, I think you may not ylkow this, but it’s important for people with felonies to both be able to vote and run for office.
I’m not arguing you should vote for them, but if this weren’t the case, all a administration would need to tldo is convict their political opponents of felonies to effectively capture the state. For example, Bidens administration could have been far more aggressive in going after Trump specifically to prevent him from running. Maybe we think that’s a good thing. But reverse the roles. Maybe Trump goes after DNC hopefuls for felonies in the run up to 2020. The knife cuts both ways.
We shouldn’t view what is legal or illegal based on a given administrative and judicial configuration as monolithic. Our system needs to be able to mechanistically check itself against corruption. In many ways that’s currently failing, but you can see how it’s at least built into the basic structure of the system.