 tethered to a manhattan courtroom for weeks on end potentially sentenced to prison and thus taken off the campaign trail permanently but certainly gagged under the gag order and prevented from discussing political topics that are of interest to missouri voters i have constituents all the time reach out and say hey can we still vote for president trump what's going on with this can he still appear on the ballot can he serve as president if he is convicted and that's another one of our arguments it's called the purcell doctrine and it stands