Missouri introduces ‘Donald Trump’ bill making it legal for felons to run for office
Missouri introduces ‘Donald Trump’ bill making it legal for felons to run for office
New legislation would repeal a 2015 law that prevents those who were found guilty or pleaded guilty to a felony from running for local or statewide office
Summary
Missouri state Representative Michael Davis has introduced the “Donald J. Trump Election Qualification Act,” a bill allowing individuals convicted of felonies to run for public office if otherwise qualified.
The legislation, named after Donald Trump, seeks to repeal a 2015 state law barring felons from candidacy in local or statewide elections.
Davis argues the law should align with Trump’s election as president despite his 34 felony convictions in New York.
He advocates for reintegration of felons into society, emphasizing their rights as citizens to participate in government and elections.
If they can run for office, then they can vote.
IMHO all citizens, in or out of jail should be able to vote. If one is a citizen, one should be automatically registered to vote at 18 yo.
Felons actually can vote in Missouri if they've completed their sentence. This includes parole and probation terms.
Permanent disenfranchisement is actually less common than people think. It's still too common by far, and we need to revisit the reasoning for disenfranchisement while incarcerated or on probation, but in most of the country a felony doesn't prevent voting permanently.
“I believe that we should punish those who do wrong, but once they’ve completed the terms of their sentence, we should allow individuals to reintegrate into society,” Davis told Fox2Now.
Better headline would be this Republican Representative low key just said Trump should be in jail.
Wait a minute, if that 2015 law stands, how come Trump was on the presidential ballot in MO? He is a convicted felon.
I mean, the constitution clearly excludes Trump from being president due to his insurrection coup. But the Supreme Court is a bunch of hacks and laws don’t matter.
Things that make one go “hmm?”
It applied to local and state offices but apparently not federal.
Nope, that's not it:
No person shall qualify as a candidate for elective public office in the state of Missouri who has been found guilty of or pled guilty to a felony under the federal laws of the United States of America or to a felony under the laws of this state or an offense committed in another state that would be considered a felony in this state.
https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=115.306&bid=34682
“I believe that we should punish those who do wrong, but once they’ve completed the terms of their sentence, we should allow individuals to reintegrate into society,” Davis told Fox2Now.
So not at all like Trump.
Luigi 2028
He won't be old enough, but that would be fucking incredible if he ran.
Apparently all you need to do to evade prison is make an earnest run at being President. Let's make a Super PAC and get the ball rolling, we've got a real American patriot to save.
Are we following rules now? Let me get the word out
I will riot if he runs for anyone other than the Green party.
On the one hand I am absolutely for the abolishment of many felonies. And reintegration and Felons into society. But on the other hand f*** Donald Trump why can't Missouri do anything actually clearly good and not name s*** after unrepentant fascists.
FWIW we in this shithole of a state have little to no power even if we vote for things. We vote down every "Right to Work" amendment they've shoved on the ballot for decades and it just keeps popping back up.
We passed expansion of Medicaid and they simply did nothing to expand it.
We're all waiting for how they shut down the abortion access amendment that just passed in November.
They force state control of police in the big cities to oppress the brown and black people. They gerrymander the districts. They make voting extremely difficult. They brutalize peaceful protests. Call the national guard in for a mouse fart in the wrong zip code.
It is a fascist dictatorship.
But please, everyone, stop thinking that we here endorse this ferkakte theocracy. We are fighting. We always have. The boot has been systemically on our throats for decades.
It is hard to leave too. The cost of living is so low here that it makes it difficult to even move across the river into Illinois. It is a trap. A trap most of us are born into.
As a resident I agree 100%. There's just too much lead poisoning state for things to get better any time soon. 🤐
You gotta admit it's pretty funny though.
white Felons, I assume.
Trump is soooo inspirational! You can be a pedo a rapist a fraud and still become president of the United States!
If the United States was a family, Missouri would be the creepy bachelor uncle who drives a pickup with flags, won't set foot out of the house without a gun and has a computer with a Don't Tread on Me wallpaper and a D drive full of bondage porn.
D, E, and F drives. Not RAIDed, of course. Being raided is for the illegals, according to him.
All of a sudden they care about felons when their God king became one lmao
I double checked just for maximum hypocrisy but MO apparently isn't one of the permanent felon disenfranchisement states - so once time/probation is served convicted felons regain their voting rights.
That makes me throw up slightly less, I guess.
Damn it really is a cult.
"party of law and order"
Being right for all the wrong reasons.
Oh now that it's a rich white man they're going to get rid of the laws meant to disenfranchise black communities?
I am not against it. If Trump can then the others should.
Trump shouldn't.
The white supremacist theocratic autocracy which runs Missouri knows no bounds. The party which is constantly obsessed with "law and order" and gangs and crime can absolutely not see the hypocrisy.
and the backward sprint continues.
What a legacy to leave behind /s
So the way to prevent people from running for office is to find ANY felony to charge them with and keep them in court.
I’m all for kicking that ass to the curb, but this might not end how we might want it to
What happens if it fails?