Tiedrich: holy shit, these Federalist Society lawyers want to 14th Amendment the fuck out of Donald [View all]

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the complete text of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868 in the wake of the Civil War, reads:

“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.”

“engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”

hmm. does that sound like any fuckface former president we know?

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but do you know who else it seems obvious to? William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, two law professors from the Federalist Society.

holy shit. the Federalist Society. that’s huge.

“The bottom line is that Donald Trump both ‘engaged in’ ‘insurrection or rebellion’ and gave ‘aid or comfort’ to others engaging in such conduct, within the original meaning of those terms as employed in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”

“Section 3’s disqualification rule may and must be followed — applied, honored, obeyed, enforced, carried out — by anyone whose job it is to figure out whether someone is legally qualified to office,” the authors wrote. That includes election administrators, the article said.

again, holy shit.