They are but you can’t challenge it until they run and even then its not worth it to fight it until they’re elected at which point you ask for an injunction to prevent them being installed while you actually challenge their ability to be seated.
They are but you can’t challenge it until they run
It looks like all these people are already running though?
and even then its not worth it to fight it until they’re elected
Disagreed, just in general it is always worth fighting to keep anti-democractic insurrectionists out of government, plus I could see a court saying something like
“Well, we don’t like allowing insurrectionists in government, but we also don’t like going against the will of the people, and they did win. Maybe if this has been challenged far enough in advance that the Republicans had a reasonable opportunity to find a different candidate to run we’d be ok doing this, but now it just feels anti-democractic… Karl Popper? Never heard of him.”
You misunderstand, the legal battle isn’t worth it until they win because the battle will be expensive as fuck and if they lose it never needed to have money spent on it.
Politics are a marathon not a sprint and a big part of that is knowing when to fight and lose money for a pyrrhic victory and when the ends don’t justify the means.
Why are they not barred from doing so if they were involved with a failed insurrection?
They are but you can’t challenge it until they run and even then its not worth it to fight it until they’re elected at which point you ask for an injunction to prevent them being installed while you actually challenge their ability to be seated.
It looks like all these people are already running though?
Disagreed, just in general it is always worth fighting to keep anti-democractic insurrectionists out of government, plus I could see a court saying something like
“Well, we don’t like allowing insurrectionists in government, but we also don’t like going against the will of the people, and they did win. Maybe if this has been challenged far enough in advance that the Republicans had a reasonable opportunity to find a different candidate to run we’d be ok doing this, but now it just feels anti-democractic… Karl Popper? Never heard of him.”
You misunderstand, the legal battle isn’t worth it until they win because the battle will be expensive as fuck and if they lose it never needed to have money spent on it.
Politics are a marathon not a sprint and a big part of that is knowing when to fight and lose money for a pyrrhic victory and when the ends don’t justify the means.
Ah yes, money first, constitution and democracy second. How American of you.
No one is saying that, I’m saying not every fight is worth the expense, some are some aren’t she you need to have reserves for the ones that are.