My grandson is a Boy Scout working on Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge

[RickHworth]

He is 11 years old and has many questions about what is being reported on the "news" on section three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I will let you read the requirements http://usscouts.org/usscouts/mb/mb003.asp
The question that he had was, that why does media keep mentioning about a conviction? There is no requirement of a conviction as a qualifier of disability.
Here it is for all to read.
"Section 3
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."
He has the understanding from where this amendment came from and how it was necessary at that time and how it was installed to prevent anyone trying to break our union again.
In this case, my grandson is smarter than most of the journalist and Supreme Court Justices.

[efhmc]

1. Very impressive. Wish we had more adults like him.

[fierywoman]

2. I would bet serious money that not many MAGAts were boy or girl scouts.

[stopdiggin]

3. in that you'd most likely be quite wrong

in a very similar way you would to being quite wrong in assuming that many MAGA (and other very right wingers) never served or wore a uniform. It's unfortunate - but the two things do not contradict.
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[Bluethroughu]

4. Yes, he is.

Alito kept interrupting the Colorado council, while he tried to say that very point, as if he didn't want it spoken into the record. Then, he would redirect with a completely hypothetical question about something else. He fooled no one.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I remember when my oldest child took that merit badge

We had a fundraiser for a judge at our house and he got to ask the judge to sign off on part of that merit badge. Tell you grandson to keep it up until they make Eagle. Being an Eagle helped my oldest get a very nice scholarship.