Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Voters should decide elections: That’s the simple lesson of Georgia in 2018 and 2020, writes Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, for @wsjopinion. Some legal scholars are arguing that secretaries of state should remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which states that a public official is ineligible for public office if he has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” America. But Georgia law contemplates a legal process that must take place before anyone is removed from the ballot. Anyone who believes in democracy must let the voters decide. Invoking the 14th Amendment is merely the newest way of attempting to short-circuit the ballot box. Since 2018, Georgia has seen losing candidates and their lawyers try to sue their way to victory. It doesn’t work. Stacey Abrams’s claims of election mismanagement following the 2018 election were rejected in court, as were Trump’s after the 2020 election. For a secretary of state to remove a candidate would only reinforce the grievances of those who see the system as rigged and corrupt. Denying voters the opportunity to choose is fundamentally un-American. The 2024 election won’t be decided by prosecutors. It won’t be decided by John Eastman. And it won’t be decided by the vice president, whose role is simply to oversee a joint session of Congress in which each state’s electors are counted. The American people will make their own decisions. Read more at the link in @wsjopinion's bio. Photo: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle/AP」9月7日 23時39分