A WashPost Op-Ed that advances the ‘States’ using The 14 Amendment to lock out the ex-President’s name from ballots in the November 2024 election vote….
This could would need a judgement call from the Us Supreme Court….
Personally?
I think this is media promotted stretch* ….
But?
Two prominent conservative scholars have added their voices — and, more important, their extensive analysis of the relevant historical record — in support of this argument. They conclude that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was adopted after the Civil War to prohibit former federal officeholders who joined the Confederacy from holding office again, applies broadly to any “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States and not solely to the South’s secession from the Union.
These scholars explain in a forthcoming law review article that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was an insurrection within the meaning of this clause and, crucially, that Trump engaged in this insurrection within the clause’s meaning, by both fomenting it and failing to exercise his presidential powers to stop it once it was underway. Refuting the viewthat the president is not an “officer” to whom this provision applies, these scholars cogently note that John Tyler was a former president and John Breckinridge a former vice president who both joined the Confederacy, and surely the framers of the 14th Amendment intended its disqualification from future office to apply to the likes of them…..
Note…
Trump has NOT been criminally charged with inciting a ‘insurrection ‘….
The Feds and Georgai are charging him with trying to actually change electors and steal an election….