The #Constitution Prohibits #Trump From Ever Being President Again
The only question is whether #American #citizens today can uphold that commitment.
By J. Michael Luttig & Laurence H. Tribe
#UnitedStatesConstitution #ConstitutionalLaw #FourteenthAmendment #treason
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/
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.
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.
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