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So it seems that the chances of civil war in America just rose somewhat dramatically.

On Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that President Donald J. Trump

had to be removed from the state ballot for both the primaries and the general election.

They cited Amendment 14, section three of the

Constitution of the United States. That section reads, quote, 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 an insurrection,

or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

A Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.

That's what the section says. The case made by the 4-3 Colorado majority in favor of barring

President Trump from the ballot is simple. They say Trump tried to conduct an insurrection

in their judgment and thus can be barred from the ballot by their say-so. The court says,

quote, Congress does not need to pass implementing legislation for Section 3's disqualification provision to attach.

They say that Section 3 is in that sense self-executing. In other words, so long as Section

3 says insurrectionists are disqualified from office, this means that Congress doesn't

actually need to define what it means to be an insurrectionist. Any state court can do

that. What's more, the state court says the Constitution authorizes states to determine, quote,

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