For Trump, What’s So Bad About Jail?

If you’re like me, a political junkie, Labor Day the year before a national election year can’t ever come quickly enough. Because when all is said and done, there’s really no political event in this country or any other country which compares to the day when we sit down and count what next year will be around 160 million votes to see who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for four years beginning on January 20, 2025.

And by the way, things are really beginning to rev up with the announcement yesterday that the SCOTUS will shortly be deciding a case, John Castro v. Donld Trump, which seeks to remove Trump-o from the ballot because the 14th Amendment disqualifies anyone from holding public office if they have engaged in ‘insurrection or rebellion’ against the United States.

The 14th Amendment was passed in 1868, and inserted language into the Constitution defining the civil rights of black Americans (and all Americans) who had been freed from slavery when the 13th Amendment abolishing involuntary servitude was ratified in 1865. It also contains a clause which made it impossible for the former Confederate states to send representatives to Congress who had walked out in 1860 and returned home to help organize and direct the succession of their state from the United States.