#FourteenthAmendment
#14amendment

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

CREW just sued in Colorado to enforce the 14th Amendment and keep Donald Trump off the ballot in the 2024 presidential election.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/lawsuit-filed-to-remove-trump-from-ballot-in-co-under-14th-amendment/

#FourteenthAmendment #14amendment

Lawsuit contends Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause bars Trump from running again for president

“By instigating this unprecedented assault on the American constitutional order, Trump violated his oath and disqualified himself under the Fourteenth Amendment from holding public office, including the Office of the President,”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-constitution-2024-election-primary-ballot-19ca3f17881e8818302cb1260e7c2aed

(27 Aug) - It’s time for Chris Christie to sue Donald Trump https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-chris-christie-hutchinson-fourteenth-amendment-disqualified-rcna101678 #ChrisChristieSue #DonaldTrumpLawsuit #FourteenthAmendment #DisqualifiedCandidate #PoliticalLegalBattle #PresidentialElectionControversy #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110961015904547669

It's time for Chris Christie to sue Donald Trump

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-chris-christie-hutchinson-fourteenth-amendment-disqualified-rcna101678

#ChrisChristieSue #DonaldTrumpLawsuit #FourteenthAmendment #DisqualifiedCandidate #PoliticalLegalBattle #PresidentialElectionControversy #Politics #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

"“Donald #Trump is the living embodiment of the threat that the Fourteenth Amendment’s framers sought to protect American #democracy against when they barred constitutional oath-breakers from office.”

Like other constitutional qualifications... Section 3 is enforceable through civil #lawsuits challenging a candidate’s eligibility to hold office...

The 14th Amendment does NOT require a criminal conviction for #disqualification "
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-disqualification-from-office-14th-amendment/

#FourteenthAmendment #USPol #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

New Yorker: The Constitutional Case for Barring Trump from the Presidency https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-constitutional-case-for-barring-trump-from-the-presidency #NewYorker #2024PresidentialElection #FourteenthAmendment #2020Election #CapitolRiot #DonaldTrump #News/Q.&A.

The Sweep & Force of Section Three

by William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen

#SectionThree of the #FourteenthAmendment forbids holding office by fmr office holders who then participate in #insurrection or #rebellion. Because of a range of misperceptions & mistaken assumptions, § Three’s full #legal consequences have not been appreciated or #enforced. This article corrects those mistakes by setting forth the full sweep & force of § 3.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751

This protection, embodied in the #FourteenthAmendment’s often-overlooked Section 3, automatically excludes from future #office & position of #power in the #UnitedStates government—& also from any equivalent office & position of power in the sovereign states & their subdivisions—any person who has taken an oath to support & defend our #Constitution & thereafter rebels against that sacred charter, either through overt #insurrection or by giving aid or comfort to the Constitution’s enemies.

As students of the #UnitedStatesConstitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of #ConstitutionalLaw, & both as constitutional advocates, scholars, & practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the #FourteenthAmendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation’s second founding & a new birth of freedom, contains within it a protection against the dissolution of the republic by a #treasonous president.

#Trump

(20 Aug) - Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/19/politics/donald-trump-fourteenth-amendment-2024-race/index.html #CNN #TrumpConstitutionalArgument #BarredFromPresidency #FourteenthAmendment #2024Race #LegalScholars #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110923975019815057

Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/19/politics/donald-trump-fourteenth-amendment-2024-race/index.html

#CNN #TrumpConstitutionalArgument #BarredFromPresidency #FourteenthAmendment #2024Race #LegalScholars #Politics #News

"It argued that the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment is still in effect (countering arguments that it applied only to the Civil War era secessionists), that it is self-executing (meaning the disqualification of certain people is automatic, much as age limits or residency requirements are), and that Trump and others who participated in trying to steal the 2020 presidential election are disqualified from holding office."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-19-2023?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Jan6 #FourteenthAmendment
#Trump

«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/

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/15/ralph_nader_donald_trump_indictments

A glaring #omission in the #JackSmith charges: the #QuanceIndicted should be additionally charged under #Section3 of the #FourteenthAmendment, which could bar him from again running for political office due to having “engaged in %insurrection or #rebellion”
#Jan6 #usethe14th

From historian, Michael Beschloss:

Fourteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution:

“No person shall…hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who…shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

#USConstitution #FourteenthAmendment #Insurrection #TrumpIndictment #Georgia

"...The #FourteenthAmendment gave the federal government the power to protect individuals even if their state legislatures had passed discriminatory laws. 'No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law'"
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-8-2023?publication_id=20533&isFreemail=true

#DirtyRepublicans #DebtLimit #FourteenthAmendment now that the dirty & phony republicans have gotten a lot of press with a fake issue, one can only hope that both dems & reps refuse to confirm the deal so that Biden will use the 14th amendment to do what he should have done from the beginning

@snowflakeanon

It is actually in the constitution that pretending that the US cannot or will not pay its bills, is a crime. 14th

#FourteenthAmendment