Is it incredibly easy to charge people with felonies?
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nomous@lemmy.world 3 months agoThe obvious answer is: because then it would be incredibly easy to target any “undesirable” (who just so happens to be politically active) and come up with a felony to charge them with.
Lionheadbud@lemmy.world 3 months ago
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
It is if you control the judiciary.
nomous@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yes actually. There’s a book called three felonies a day all about that.
LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
This makes sense. HOWEVER. That’s not really what’s happening here now, is it?
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 months ago
You can be upset, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to outlaw running for president as a criminal. Russia exists as a case study.
mayo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s a problem because it’s not just Trump, it’s whole party that has gone way off the rails. Bundy could run but he wouldn’t win.
There’s only like 3 rules to becoming president and one is age and other is being an american. The bar is intentionally low.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well, one of the rules is not committing treason or sedition and yet we’re still here, so that shows you how useful rules are
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 months ago
not really
The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency — the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.