Over in Colorado, where voters are petitioning to have Trump removed from the ballot under Sect 3 14A for his insurrectionist activities, Trump's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss with a few ..interesting.. theories around whether POTUS supports VS protects Constitution. 😕
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The September 29th Motion to Dismiss also explains how Section Three does not apply to all officers of the United States, but only those who take an oath "to support the Constitution of the United States." As explained there, the Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution not "to support the Constitution. Both oaths put a weighty burden on an oath-taker. However, because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to "support" the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President. If they wanted to include the President in the reach of Section Three, they could have done so by expanding the language of which type of oath would bring an "officer" under the strictures of Section Three. They did not do so, and no number of semantical arguments will change this simple fact. As such, Section Three does not apply to President Trump.


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