Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon?

He can, because there's no law against it. Probably nobody thought there'd ever need to be!

You'd think the bad publicity alone would be enough to destroy any chance of election. You'd think.

Yes, and it's important that felons be able to run for president. Were that not the case, a corrupt enough system could just disqualify anyone that would seek to oust it.

Yup! Because that's the law. The original idea was to keep people in power from being able to outmaneuver their opponents by having them arrested. That was back when politicians and corporations had some level of public accountability though.

The Constitution spells out who is eligible to run for President, and does not say criminals are ineligible. It's as simple as that.

Yep, cause the constitution doesn’t forbid felons from running for president.

The congress can still impeach Trump for a third time even though he's not in office, and if the Senate convicts, they can ban him from ever holding public office again.

yes, felons can campaign for president and be elected. technically it's even legal for the president to be locked behind bars while serving.

Yes. And he's not the first to run a campaign from prison (though he likely won't go to prison for the 34 felonies. Prison is extremely rare for those kinds of charges. even if he wasn't trump.)

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Yes. The constitution is actually shockingly specific about what the qualifications are. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

No other qualifications can be considered, barring a Constitutional Amendment.

Yes, and there's precedent that he can still run even if he's imprisoned.

Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

Convicted felons can't vote so he can't vote for himself. 🤣

The current record for number of US presidental votes received while in prison is about 1,000,000. Eugene V. Debs is the record holder, and that election was in 1920. Trump just may beat him this year. There is no law that says you can't be president while in prison.

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Theres no law saying he cant

Yes. The "why" is that in 1787 it was unthinkable that a felon would be elected President by the Electoral College. The electors wouldn't bother voting for a felon.

https://learnconlaw.com/78-the-disqualification-clause

Maybe. It's complicated

Edit: yeah I'm conflating two different things. Interesting listen though