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#SCOTUS: Does the disenfranchising of insurrectionists in the 14th Amendment apply to presidents? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

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#SCOTUS: Does the disenfranchising of insurrectionists in the 14th Amendment apply to presidents? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

https://www.hoover.org/research/misguided-disqualification-efforts
1861 Kearsage vs Alabama

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NYU and the University of Chicago writing for defining ideas from the Hoover Institution about the question

0:45.2

President Trump being challenged by various states, Minnesota is one of them, about his ability to put himself on the ballot for 2024.

0:56.3

I read from, as Richard quotes in his article, the relevant section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

1:04.3

Disqualification from holding office is the title.

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No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or

1:12.3

elector of President and Vice President or hold any

1:15.8

office civil or military under the United States or under any state who

1:22.0

having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an

1:26.5

officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature or as an executive or

1:32.1

judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution

1:36.2

of the United States shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

1:47.0

But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

1:53.7

Professor, you write discerningly of that paragraph

1:57.7

and the question of Donald Trump's eligibility

2:01.5

for the ballot in 2024, which if you follow polls looks more probable than not.

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