If the Supreme Court affirms the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to bar Trump from the ballot under section 3 of the 14th Amendment; the alternative would be restore Trump’s eligibility to hold office in time for the election.
If Minority Leader Jefferies suggested that in exchange for movement on foreign aid, the budget and some other acts, the Democratic caucus, in an effort to assert their confidence in re-election, are willing to restore his ability to hold office.
It is obvious that the common sense resolution that the amendment applies and bars Trump simply acknowledges this is ultimately a political issue.
Providing Trump with a restoration of rights does involve admissions of the facts of the matter; all his lies and BS are swept away.
It seems to me to be mighty large leverage. Enough leverage to get aid for Ukraine and Israel? Yes. A budget deal too? Maybe. Immigration? (The GOP would never make a deal to solve the border/immigration issues.)
I mean this may be the first and only legislative matter that would be of interest to the maga bunch.
Now, on one level it makes no sense to make Trump eligible to regain office by restoring his privilege ‘cause you know he will try. Fear of terroristic actions and the creation of more chaos is the concern of barring Trump from office directly.
The reason not to bar him is because we want to crush him in an election and directly refute the notion that the deep state just took ‘em out. If the deep state wanted him gone, he would be.
All that said, I can’t imagine the Republican caucus not embracing this ‘pragmatic’ solution to the obvious disqualification under the 14th Amendment and make a legislative deal