Editorial of The New York Sun | January 5, 2022
Democrats are preparing to keep President Trump from even contemplating another run for the White House — by any means necessary, starting with President Biden’s claim that Mr. Trump was “singularly responsible” for the “chaos and carnage” of January 6. They failed twice at impeachment, but their January 6 committee is contemplating criminal accusations. The Attorney General is warning of possible charges.
The most startling scheme to run Mr. Trump out of the 2024 campaign, though, comes from those who want to revive a tool that was added to the Constitution in 1868 and hasn’t been used since 1919. It’s the Fourteenth Amendment’s Disqualification Clause, a Reconstruction-era ban on ex-Confederates holding elected office never intended for events like January 6.
The clause bars from serving in office anyone who, having “taken an
oath” as an officer of the United States, engages in “insurrection or
rebellion against the same.” A former campaign lawyer for Senator
Clinton, Marc Elias, recently predicted
that there will be “a serious discussion” over whether some House
Republicans will be “disqualified by Section 3 of the Fourteenth
Amendment from serving in Congress.”............To Read More.....
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