Richard Epstein: Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3: "insurrection."
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS I in the world I'm'm John Batchelor. The 14th Amendment of the United States, |
| 0:36.2 | section 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of the president |
| 0:42.0 | and vice president or hold any office, |
| 0:44.0 | civil or military under the United States or under any state who, having previously |
| 0:49.7 | 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 |
| 0:57.2 | executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion |
| 1:06.8 | against the same or give an aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. |
| 1:11.4 | But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house remove such |
| 1:15.2 | disability. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover |
| 1:19.2 | Institution teaches law at University of Chicago and NYU. This is an old story that may be a new story again. |
| 1:27.3 | It's a story that's told. It might be just a scary hour at Halloween, but the possibility remains that Mr. Trump, should he be successful, |
| 1:39.3 | could be charged as an insurrectionist and under the 14th Amendment section 3 one reading |
| 1:45.0 | suggests that he would be ineligible to take the office of the presidency in |
| 1:49.8 | January. Richard we did this long time ago and I've forgotten all the details but it has to do with |
| 1:57.2 | is the president a person who qualifies under this section three? |
| 2:02.4 | Good evening to you. |
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