08-19-2022, 12:21 PM
(08-19-2022, 11:43 AM)Nately120 Wrote: All jokes aside, people have had to look into the constitutionality of prison disqualifying a person from running for president, and it may be one of those "There is nothing in the rules that say an elephant can't play baseball" type situations...right? I could be wrong.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/run-president-prison-ask-smithsonian-180974594/
Q: Has anyone ever run for president while in prison?
— L. M. Frank | Los Angeles
Eugene V. Debs was in an Atlanta penitentiary, serving a ten-year sentence, when he lost the 1920 presidential election. Two years earlier, Debs, a labor leader, had spoken out against America’s involvement in World War I. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, after the prosecution argued that his antiwar speech obstructed military enrollment. The 1920 loss didn’t come as a surprise to Debs, who had run four times before. His fifth and final run, promoted with a campaign button that read “For President Convict No. 9653,” brought him nearly one million votes, says Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the National Museum of American History. President Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921.
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