"It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy (perhaps, “an abundance of caution,” instead), and not in confidence. It is jealousy (an abundance of caution) and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." (Thomas Jefferson from the Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798)
Does the Federal AG (Attorney General) and/or state AGs have the ability to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prevent electors from voting for the president-elect who had, demonstrably, incited insurrection in the capitol culminating on January 6th of 2021.
If 45 had been appropriately impeached for insurrection he couldn't be president-elect now.
Well purchased, pseudo-conservative, SCOTUS justices (who expedited rulings against CO and ME) kept 45 on those states' ballots in 2024. How many other states would have modified their ballots, the way CO and ME did, if SCOTUS had not set the precedent; blocked the application of 14/3?
The SCOTUS majority aided and abetted insurrection on multiple occasions, including the example above.
Time and again Republican officials in the executive, judicial and legislative branches of state and federal government have demonstrated that when abiding by oath of office, rule of law or Constitution would not result in the desired outcome, they abandoned each and every one of said regulatory restraints, repeatedly.
The aforementioned disregard for inconvenient regulations culminated in insurrection against the United States of America... Consequences are demanded.
Are electors obligated to vote only as the plurality/majority of the voters in their states did (for 45), as they do their Constitutionally assigned duty? Can they vote for others (Harris/Walz) instead?
This lawlessness has demonstrated a very important and disappointing need to restore order by removing those (legislators, justices and a president-elect) who would not follow rules when they were inconvenient, from the offices they currently occupy, and prohibit those individuals from ever holding positions of power and responsibility, in state and/or federal bureaucracies, ever again.
The Republican party has clearly chosen to support and follow a convicted felon, who incited insurrection, into power at the extraordinary expense of the law abiding citizens of our nation.
The Constitution, especially Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, gives law enforcement agencies the authority to end this Republican, criminal, power grab.
The DOJ needs to quit making excuses, and protect Democracy, Constitution and the rule of law from said criminal power grab!
Our nation, and the Democracies around the world, are depending on the USA to set the example...
Do not allow the criminal enterprise, the Republicans have chosen to become, to succeed.