拜登與川普雙雙缺席2024？ The day no Biden nor Trump participate 2024 Presidential Campaign?

【雙魚之論】英文拷到 G / D 找中文翻譯
My best guess for the 2024 US Presidential Campaign is that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump will participate.
My assumption aligns with the principles of US democracy, specifically the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibits individuals who have vowed “to support the Constitution of the United States' from engaging in 'insurrection or rebellion against the same, or giving aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” According to this amendment, such a person shall not be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or an elector of President and Vice-President, etc.
If this scenario plays out, then Joe Biden's statement on December 5, 'If Trump wasn't running, I'm not sure I'd be running,' might indeed come true. The two successive US Presidents form an inherent pair. Only through simultaneous retirement, or stepping down from public office by both and being pardoned by the next president, can the problem that sabotages the US Constitution be resolved.  Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon is an example.

2024年美國總統競選的我最佳猜測是，既不是拜登也不是川普將參與選舉。
我的假設符合美國民主的原則，具體而言，符合美國憲法的第14修正案，該修正案禁止那些「宣誓支持美國憲法的個人從事叛亂或造反，或向其提供援助或安慰其敵人」的行為。根據這一修正案，這樣的人「不得成為參議院或眾議院的議員，或者是總統和副總統的選舉人」等。
如果這種情況發生，那麼拜登在12月5日所說的「如果川普不參選，我不確定我會參選」的說法可能確實成為現實。兩位連任的美國總統形成了一對固有的組合。只有通過同時退休，或者兩者都從公共職位上卸任並由下一任總統赦免，才能解決損害美國憲法的問題。福特特赦尼克森就是個例子。

Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal    CNBC 20231219

• Former President Donald Trump was barred from appearing on Colorado presidential election ballots by a state Supreme Court ruling.
• Lawsuits in Colorado and other states argue that the Republican nomination frontrunner disqualified from ballots because he engaged in insurrection by inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
• The Trump campaign said it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the ruling.
• The ruling is the first time Trump has been disqualified for trying to block the 2020 electoral victory of President Joe Biden.

  

Biden ‘not sure he’d be running’ in 2024 if Trump wasn’t: ‘We cannot let him win’    The Guardian 20231205

 

美國憲法第十四修正案

Section 1.  第 1 節
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws 
所有在美國出生或取得國籍，並受其管轄的人，皆為美國及其居住之州的公民。任何州不得制定或執行任何削減美國公民特權或豁免的法律；也不得在法律正當程序下剝奪任何人的生命、自由或財產；更不得在其管轄範圍內否定任何人平等受法律保護的權利。

Section 2.  第 2 節
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.  眾議員應根據各州的人口數進行分配，計算每個州的全體居民數，不包括未徵稅的印地安人。但若在任何一州中，剝奪任何年滿二十一歲的美國公民男性，參與總統和副總統的選舉、國會眾議員的選舉、該州行政和司法官員的選舉，或該州議會成員的選舉的投票權，除了因參與叛亂或其他罪行而被剝奪者外，該州在代表人口的基礎上的比例應相應減少，即這些男性公民的數量與該州所有二十一歲的男性公民總數的比例。

Section 3.  第 3 節
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.  任何人不得成為參議員或眾議員，或是總統和副總統的選民，或在美國或任何州的公職，無論是文職還是軍職，若此人曾經以國會成員、美國官員、任何州議會成員、或任何州的行政或司法官員身份宣誓，要支持美國憲法，卻參與叛亂或反叛，或向其敵人提供協助或支持者，不得擔任該等職位。但國會可經由每一院三分之二的投票，解除此等資格限制。

Section 4.  第 4 節
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.  美國法律授權的公共債務的有效性，包括為支付參與鎮壓叛亂或反叛而產生的養老金和賞金的債務，不得受到質疑。然而，無論是美國還是任何一個州，均不得承擔或支付任何在支援叛亂或反叛活動中產生的債務或義務，或任何因奴隸的損失或解放而提出的索賠；所有這些債務、義務和索賠均應被視為非法和無效。

Section 5. 第五節

The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.  國會擁有執行本條文各項規定的權力，並可透過適當的法律加以實施。