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Iowans oppose changing state law to let felons run for president or to ban ballot drop boxes; favor earlier return of mail-in ballots, Iowa Poll finds
Now that a New York jury has convicted former President Donald Trump of all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, the next obvious question is: Can a convicted felon run for president?
This record-keeping offense can be punished as a low-level felony if it can be shown that Trump committed a second crime by seeking to hide campaign contributions that influenced the election.
We’ve never had a felon run for the presidency, and win the presidency, before. So, it’d be kind of interesting.” Most Democrats say the verdict makes them less likely to support the former ...
In the US Constitution, there are no restrictions barring a convicted felon from seeking or winning elected office, even if that ultimately means becoming president and running the country from ...
CNN asked convicted felons about their struggles, their hopes and how they feel about President-elect Donald Trump, who will return to the White House after being convicted of 34 felony charges.
On November 16, 2010, Texas state representative Leo Berman introduced legislation requiring any candidate for president or vice president running in Texas to submit to the Texas Secretary of State an "original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen." In introducing the bill, Berman said that the ...
Trump is also the first former president to be convicted of a felony and the second convicted felon to run for the presidential office. Over a century ago, Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs ran ...