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Is this constitutional?

Also, can’t people just not vote for someone they think is too old?

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Well, people don’t really have the choice to not vote for people they deem to old if they are the only person running for their party. If we had rules for maximum ages that would force parties to offer us younger candidates to vote for

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It absolutely is. States are granted the right to send representatives to Congress in pretty much any way they see fit.

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No, they can’t. The SCOTUS ruled in 1995 that states cannot impose qualifications for prospective members of the U.S. Congress stricter than those the Constitution specifies.

state-imposed restrictions … violate a third idea central to this basic principle: that the right to choose representatives belongs not to the States, but to the people

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What a fucking crazy quote in the face of the electoral college.

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Well that’s going to stick in the craw of certain state legislatures when they try to overrule the will of the voters in the upcoming election.

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Historically states can run their own elections, but just recently the supreme Court jumped in to say Colorado couldn’t keep an insurrectionist from running for president.

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A president is not a congressman.

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Oh god, don’t make me remember that.

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I don’t see why not? I can’t run for president at 31. Additionally, it is up to each state to define how its elections are held, and that’s delineated in the constitution as well.

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There is no limitation on length of age in the constitution. In order to change that, a constitutional amendment is needed. A state cannot decide. It is plainly unconstitutional.

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The minimum age requirements are in the Constitution, so it would be hard to challenge them. There’s nothing about a maximum age.

On the other hand, the supreme Court very recently ruled that Colorado couldn’t keep Trump off the ballot in that state.

At the very least, this seems wide open to be legally challenged.

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