We’ve talked before about how this is a bit of a ticking time bomb for Trump: There are numerous efforts to declare that Trump is disqualified from being President under Section 3, of the Fourteenth Amendment. This section was designed to keep Confederates out of power after the Civil War, but it was written more broadly than that. Here’s what that part of the amendment says:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Thus, the argument would go that Trump somehow committed insurrection or rebellion—even though not even Jack Smith decided to indict him for that. Of course, the argument is…
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