Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation.
The 14th Amendment doesn’t even require impeachment or any sort of conviction. It says that if you previously held office and then engaged in insurrection, you instantly have a disability that keeps you from holding any office, and Congress is only able to vote to remove that disability.
Essentially, it works backwards from the rest of the constitution and due process and all that shit. It kept Confederates out of US government, despite how they were not impeached or even criminally convicted of insurrection. Exactly as intended.
But you saw how effectively that was enforced when Chief Justice Roberts swore Trump in last year. Conservatives in power just ignore any laws that are inconvenient to them.