"Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson brought the issue up during the first GOP presidential debate in August.

“More people are understanding the importance of that, including conservative legal scholars, who say [Trump] may be disqualified under the 14th Amendment from being president again as a result of the insurrection,” Hutchinson said."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/trump-14th-amendment-ballot/

#GOP #Trump #Jan6 #DisqualificationClause #14thAmendment
#USPol #USA #News

"William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen — two conservative constitutional scholars affiliated with the Federalist Society... conclude in their 126-page report that the 14th Amendment “disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/trump-14th-amendment-ballot/

#14thAmendment #DisqualificationClause #Trump #Jan6 #Insurrection
#Politics #USPol #USA #News

"Though the language of #Section3 could not be clearer, most scholars find it nearly impossible to imagine this #SCOTUS would deprive #Trump and his angry horde of supporters a chance to return him to power.

Now, should that near-certain legal outcome influence secretaries of state? Ideally not, for they took an oath to defend the #Constitution and must fulfill their solemn obligations"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/29/trump-ballot-disqualification-constitution/

#14thAmdendment #DisqualificationClause #USA #Politics #News

@NewsDesk

"The push to disqualify #Trump under [the #14thAmendment] gained more traction when two members of the #conservative Federalist Society, William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen, recently supported the idea in the pages of the Pennsylvania #Law Review...

retired #conservative federal appeals judge J. Michael Luttig & Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe made the same argument in The Atlantic."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-election-officials-prepare-efforts-disqualify-trump-14th/story?id=102833123

#DisqualificationClause
#Jan6 #USPol #USA #News

@pbump

"The attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event. It was the culmination of a scheme by Trump and his allies to use lies, intimidation, coercion & ultimately #violence to keep Trump in office.

By leading these unprecedented efforts to subvert the Constitution and American democracy, #Trump disqualified himself under #Section3 of the #14thAmendment from holding any federal or state office, including the presidency."
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-disqualification-from-office-14th-amendment/

#Jan6 #DisqualificationClause #USPol

"And let’s also remember that all of this — the Trump reelection bid, the threat of a lawless president returning to the White House, the perilous state of the rule of law — could have been avoided had Senate #Republicans, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), done their duty and convicted #Trump in the #impeachment trial after #Jan6 2021, and barred him from holding office."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/29/trump-ballot-disqualification-constitution/

#Insurrection #DisqualificationClause #Republicans #GOP #USPol #USA #News

"the #14thAmendment is relevant and demands fidelity from all officials who take an oath to defend the #Constitution. As Luttig and Tribe wrote, “Section 3 is no anachronism or relic from the past; rather, it applies with the same force and effect today as it did the day it was ratified — as does every other provision, clause, and word of the Constitution that has not been repealed or revised by amendment.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/29/trump-ballot-disqualification-constitution/

#Trump #DisqualificationClause #USPol #USA #News

"authors of a law review article regarding #Section3 of the #14thAmendment...

have driven home the implications of Section 3: that all officials with a role in the presidential election process must consider disqualifying Donald #Trump from the 2024 ballot if they find he “either ‘engaged in #insurrection or rebellion’ against the Constitution or gave ‘aid and comfort to the enemies’ of that Constitution.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/29/trump-ballot-disqualification-constitution/

#DisqualificationClause #Jan6 #USPol #USA #News

"Overwhelming evidence establishes that Donald Trump was the central cause of and a participant in the January 6th insurrection. Because of that, Trump is disqualified from holding any public office, including the Office of the President, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment."
~@CREW
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-disqualification-from-office-14th-amendment/

#Trump #Jan6 #Insurrection #FourteenthAmendment #Disqualification
#DisqualificationClause
#USPol #USPolitics #Politics #USA

"The attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event. It was the culmination of a scheme by Trump and his allies to use lies, intimidation, coercion and ultimately violence to keep Trump in office.

By leading these unprecedented efforts to subvert the Constitution and American democracy, #Trump disqualified himself under Section 3 of the #FourteenthAmendment from holding any federal or state office, including the presidency."
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-disqualification-from-office-14th-amendment/

#Jan6 #DisqualificationClause #USPol

"the 14th Amendment excludes #Trump from holding office again at any level.

According to [conservative judge J. Michael] Luttig and [constitutional scholar Laurence] Tribe, the 14th Amendment’s Section 3 bars any person who has previously taken an oath to support the Constitution in an official capacity and who later “engaged in #insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution from holding an official office again."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/trump-insurrection-2020-rebellion-barred-from-office-president-luttig-tribe/

#Jan6 #DisqualificationClause #USPol #USA #News

In essence: the #DisqualificationClause only impacts States where the decision-makers, the states' governors, are members of 1 party, while their populations tend to vote for the OTHER party in presidential elections, as is the case in #Kansas. Despite the fact #Kansans had voted for #Trump in '20, they re-elected a #Democrat governor in '22. In theory, Governor #LauraKelly can decide to NOT include Trump's name on the 2024 ballot, blocking him from picking up its electoral college votes .

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«The former president’s efforts 2 overturn the #2020PresidentialElection, & the resulting attack on the U.S. #Capitol, place him squarely within the ambit of the #DisqualificationClause, and he is therefore ineligible to serve as #president ever again. The most pressing constitutional question facing our country at this moment, then, is whether we will abide by this clear command of the #FourteenthAmendment’s disqualification clause.»

#Trump #Insurrection #Constitution

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/

Section 3 of the #14thAmendment to the #Constitution, also known as the #DisqualificationClause, explicitly bars any person from holding federal or state office who took an “oath… to support the Constitution of the #UnitedStates” as a federal officer and then “engaged in #insurrection or #rebellion” or gave “aid or comfort” to insurrectionists, unless #Congress removes the disqualification by a two-thirds vote.

#RuleOfLaw
#DisqualifyTrump
#JusticeMatters
#J6

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-indicted-constitution-congress-president_n_642630e6e4b0c8ff0405543c