It wasn’t that they didn’t “force compliance”…they tried. They tried at the Federal level and at the State level…and all cases centered around that approach, failed in the Supreme Court.
The argument was, that since there was no stated mechanism for disqualification in the amendment itself, that only a legal conviction on that charge, could prevent him from running again. And they ran out of time getting that particular case through the courts.
The Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law during Biden’s term. It was entirely in his power to take enforcement action and let the courts sort it out later.
It wasn’t that they didn’t “force compliance”…they tried. They tried at the Federal level and at the State level…and all cases centered around that approach, failed in the Supreme Court.
The argument was, that since there was no stated mechanism for disqualification in the amendment itself, that only a legal conviction on that charge, could prevent him from running again. And they ran out of time getting that particular case through the courts.
The Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law during Biden’s term. It was entirely in his power to take enforcement action and let the courts sort it out later.
And what would that have done? They still ruled that he could run, so it would have been a complete waste of time.