“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.”
I love the hypocrisy mic drop at the end, but damn does it suck to know Republicans just don’t care about it. And with 6 of them sitting on the supreme court, I see no reason why they wouldn’t just meddle in state elections this time, then go right back to saying they can’t help with maps lol.
There is precedent for it acting quickly in an election dispute, as it did during Bush v. Gore in 2000 — but its reputation took a hit after it was perceived as meddling in the outcome. And, he adds, it could decline to intervene at all, as it did in several cases related to election procedures ahead of 2020.
I’ve experimented with edging in my sexual escapades but this takes the cake
Could someone please point out where the 5 things are listed? I have ADHD and I’m struggling with this article.
As you get into the meat of the article, it has five bolder headlines:
What does the clause say? When has it been used before? Who is talking about it? What are the arguments for and against? What happens next?
Frum has clearly drunk the KKKool-Aid.
You can’t uphold amendment to the constitution, that’d be unconstitutional. /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A judge ruled that Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, a Trump supporter, was disqualified from holding public office — because he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — after he was convicted of entering a restricted area of the U.S. Capitol.
Another liberal group, Free Speech For People, sought to disqualify additional Trump allies, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina.
Kim Wehle, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Baltimore who raised the 14th Amendment question in a Politico piece last year, acknowledges such a move could cause “tremendous civil unrest.”
David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who now writes for The Atlantic, argues that using the 14th Amendment would just perpetuate existing problems — like making it harder for secretaries of state to safeguard elections or for the public to accept their results.
“It’s a reckless project, and it distracts people from the real work they have to do, which is to make sure that you are signed up to drive your friends and neighbors to the polls to save your country from a threat to democracy that isn’t going to be stopped by magic words,” Frum told Morning Edition.
“Now it is time for the great leaders of the Granite State to ensure that their constituents have access to a free and fair primary election by standing against the misinterpretation and politicization of our Constitution,” they wrote in the Sept. 12 letter.
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