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In reply to the discussion: I have suggested this before and it was pretty much dismissed as "You can't do that because [View all]Josiesdad
(44 posts)Letterman famously suggested that Trump "... be taken aside and put in a home." To expand on that idea a bit might I suggest that his behavior suggests that he is quite nuts? As such he could be a candidate for civil commitment. Once a court comes to the same conclusion, we make the argument that his mental disorder has rendered him incapable of being able to make legally binding decisions or enter into agreements (i.e. contracts, etc.). Our legal system has already decided that people adjudicated to be nuts cannot enter into contracts and any contracts that they entered into while they were so afflicted are voidable. It would be a groundbreaking decision but it is not that much of leap to argue that the same mental defect or deformity that prevents such a person from being able to form a contract would also prevent them, in the public realm, to make appointments or sign laws. From there the argument would flow into a new concept... voidable appointments and voidable laws.