Could Donald Trump run for president from a US jail cell?

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Debs was a prominent Socialist, labour organiser, and pacifist. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1855, Debs left school at 14 and found work in a railroad yard, joining the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1875, and serving a single term in the Indiana General Assembly as a Democrat in 1885.

From Voices of a People's History of the United States, actor Mark Ruffalo reads Eugene Debs' famous Canton, Ohio speech Debs and his allies spent the next few months appealing his case, with its final hearing before the US Supreme Court. Ruling against him, the justices found that while Debs did not urge his listeners to resist the draft in so many words, but that the "probable effect" of his words was exactly that and upheld the original conviction.

In contrast to Debs, the second man to run for president from jail was a libertarian and far right conspiracy theorist. Lyndon LaRouche was born in 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire and briefly attended Northeastern University in Boston. Raised a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector during World War II and joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1948.

LaRouche ran on a similar platform, although with varying party affiliations, for the next seven elections. While he never received more than a tiny fraction of votes – his best showing was in 1984 with 76,773 votes – this perpetual campaigning proved lucrative for his organisation as he consistently qualified for federal matching funds which brought in millions of dollars.

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