'Trump Is Disqualified': Activists Aim to Keep Insurrectionist Off Ballot in Key States [View all]

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Most of us think he is dis- AND unqualified; meet the people trying to make it a legal reality:

by Jessica Corbett
July 7, 2023
Common Dreams


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Free Speech for People and Mi Familia Vota are among various groups and legal scholars that cite Section 3 of the 14th Amendment—which bars from office anyone who has taken an oath to support the U.S. Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion"—to assert that Trump and some congressional Republicans can't serve in government because of the Capitol attack.

The two groups are now organizing events outside secretary of state offices in California, Colorado, Georgia, and Oregon "to make sure that they are taking a stand by disqualifying Trump in those spaces, which is something that the secretary of state can do," Mi Familia Vota executive director Héctor Sánchez toldThe Hill.

The activists also focused on Nevada, and sent a related letter to Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar last month. The upcoming events are set to coincide with the 155th anniversary of the amendment's ratification on Sunday. Plans for the demonstrations come as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), another group that has long charged that Trump can't run again because of the 14th Amendment, highlighted seven past disqualifications in a Friday report.

The individuals identified by CREW include Couy Griffin, a New Mexico man ordered by a court to step down as Otero County commissioner last year after participating in the 2021 insurrection; Victor L. Berger, a Wisconsin congressman convicted under the Espionage Act whom Congress refused to seat in 1919; A.F. Gregory, a local postmaster removed by the postmaster general in 1871; and J.D. Watkins, who was disqualified from serving as a state judge in Louisiana in 1869.

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At the link is a 2-paragraph inset elaborating on CREW's take on the legal position to which they refer. In addition, tweets by Noah Bookbinder:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-14th-amendment-january-6Common Dreams
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