hoshikarakitaridia , 2 months ago

Generally, because of his criminal conviction and his intention to run for office, there’s a lot of interesting legal questions that will make for new law when we litigate them.

I do like your argument, unfortunately I’m pretty sure most courts will disagree. It’s two fold: first of all if you make felons unable to run, you incentivize people to prosecute someone when they wanna run for office. Secondly, this form is pretty straightforward with what possession or acquisition of firearms means. There is not enough wiggle room to stretch that definition to fit the a guy in his role as president being commander in chief over the military. I think no reasonable court would greenlight that argument.

But in general there’s gonna be very interesting implications.