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After the Colorado Supreme Court removed Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot under the United States Constitution’s insurrection clause, Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson and Ripple’s chief technical officer (CTO) David Schwartz had a heated debate over it. Indeed, quoting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who argued that this decision should trouble every American, Hoskinson accused the judges of hating Trump so much that they “are willing to abandon the bedrock of innocent until proven guilty to keep him out of office” in an X post on December 20. Every American should be troubled by the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove President Trump from the ballot. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 20, 2023 As he added, “I guess the United States now operates under the new precedent of punish first and convict in a court of law later,” referring to the ruling as “profoundly dangerous for all Americans” and “a new arbitrary standard (…) that doesn’t require a conviction through an official process to uphold.” Ripple CTO begs to differ In response to his observation, the Ripple CTO pointed out that “you can’t convict someone of something that’s not a crime,” as well as that “the 14th Amendment does not require a crime to trigger the eligibility bar,” hence it was impossible to “coherently argue that the 14th Amendment requires a conviction.” Replying to Schwartz, the Cardano pioneer noted that this was “not how the law works,” explaining that the amendment in question came to be “in reference to agents of the US government who left to join the Confederacy,” adding that “due process is a bedrock of the constitution.” As he added: “Insurrection against the US government is a well-understood activity, and there exist laws and law enforcement actions to pursue it. A…

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