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No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of president and vice president or hold any office under the United States or 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 shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion or given aid

and comfort to the enemies thereof. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

That is the 14th Amendment, sections three and section five.

Key language there is section five.

There is a bat poop crazy hearing going on right now with Marjorie Taylor Green on whether or not she was an

insurrectionist and should be removed from the ballot. You need to know that the judge actually

is a very progressive partisan. You also need to know that there are very few legal scholars

in America who think this case has any merit.

The reason is because it is clear from the language of the 14th Amendment's enactment and debate that it applied to Confederates,

and also that Congress has an insurrectionary act that says for this provision to apply,

you must be convicted by a court of law of insurrection, which Marjorie Taylor Green is not.

There is very limited case law on this, but it goes all the way back to the 1870s,

where a guy was found guilty of murder and appealed the case. It went up to a circuit court.

Salman Chase, the Chief Justice of the United States was sitting on the circuit at the time and ruled that

Congress, so the guy was found guilty of murder. He appealed because the judge had been in the Confederate Army

and then gotten elected as a judge, an American judge. And the ruling from the court

says that unless the judge had been found guilty in a court of law of insurrection,

that provision of the 14th Amendment didn't apply.

And it is commonly held that you got to be found guilty.

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