A Chinese Report of the Colorado Section 3 Case

 

Sun Chenghao, ‘The Supreme Court and Trump’s candidacy: controversy, trends and impact,’ American Observer #89 (Jan. 19, 2024), <https://ciss-tsinghua-edu-cn.translate.goog/info/wzjx_mggc/6870?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc>, <https://ciss.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/wzjx_mggc/6870>; 

Dr Sun Chenghao is a Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University. He wrote: “[S]everal scholars argue that the President of the United States does not meet the definition of ‘public office’ in the context of the establishment of the Constitution, and therefore Trump cannot be the subject of the disqualification clause. This view is also held by a few hardline conservatives.” In support of this view, Dr Sun cited Blackman & Tillman’s ‘Response to Baude & Paulsen’ in Tex. Rev. L. & Pol. (forthcoming). 

I have only read a translation of Dr Sun’s post on American Observer <美国观察>. It strikes me the author (writing in Chinese) was well informed and made a good faith attempt at balance. Certainly, he was better informed and more even-handed than many in the English-speaking world who had reported on Colorado’s Section 3 case.

Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘A Chinese Report of the Colorado Section 3 Case,’ New Reform Club (Mar. 18, 2024, 4:00 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-chinese-report-of-colorado-section-3.html>;