7 Feb 2024 3:38 pm
According to section 3 of the Fourteenth amendment:
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.
Does this give justification for Trump to not be on the Colorado primary ballot? The problem of course is that we really don't know what happened on January 6th and the amendment mainly applies to Confederates after the Civil War when it was written in 1868.
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.
Does this give justification for Trump to not be on the Colorado primary ballot? The problem of course is that we really don't know what happened on January 6th and the amendment mainly applies to Confederates after the Civil War when it was written in 1868.
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.