Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
Not so fast, Treason Dude.
A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.
And the Supreme Court will of course wave him through.
The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.
Trump’s attempted coup was also the first of its kind in history.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed nationally to disqualify Trump under Section 3, which was designed to keep former Confederates from returning to government after the Civil War. It bars from office anyone who swore an oath to “support” the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against it, and has been used only a handful of times since the decade after the Civil War.
And let’s be real: he did actually do that. They’re not making it up, and they’re not exaggerating.
I just read something on Quora saying that the lawsuit to keep Trump off the ballot was pursued by Republicans who didn’t want him running because they thought any other Republican would have a better chance of winning against Biden.
Accurate?