Dems Push Obscure Provision in Constitution to Prevent Trump From Oval Office
Dems Push Obscure Provision in Constitution to Prevent Trump From Oval Office
Democrats are still fixated on preventing former President Donald Trump from ever winning the White House again.
A small group of Democrats are investigating if they may use an obscure 14th Amendment clause to prevent Trump from ever again holding an elected position.
There is no real debate about the fact that former President Donald Trump incited a mob to assault the U.S. Capitol while he was still in office. It is also undisputed that the 14th Amendment prohibits anyone who held office while participating in an insurrection from doing so again. There should be no arguing that Trump, the leading Republican nominee for president in 2024, should never again be permitted to hold any office, much less the President, according to Voltaire
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Democrats have filed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone convicted of taking part in an insurrection to seek public office or a position of public trust in New York, Connecticut, and Virginia, among other states.
Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal of New York said, “If you’ve attempted to overthrow our government via violent means, in no way should you be part of it.”
He is pushing a bill that would prevent those found guilty of participating in an uprising or rebellion against the United States from holding civil office, which would prevent them from having positions as a judge or legislator. Hoylman-Sigal claimed that the reason he introduced the bill this year was because he witnessed more participants in the Washington violence.
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Any person convicted of a felony connected to an attempted uprising or riot would not be allowed to hold positions of public trust, including those involving policymaking, law enforcement, safety, education, or health, according to a measure filed by a politician in Virginia.
Anyone convicted of sedition, revolt, insurrection, or a felony connected to one of those acts would not be allowed to seek for office or retain one, according to a Connecticut law. According to Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, who proposed the proposal, it should eventually prevent them from holding state or local government positions.
The New York Post covered this new Democratic push in an article from last year.
Any government official who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the US is barred from holding office again by Section 3 of the amendment, which was ratified in 1868 and is best recognized for establishing the Equal Protection Clause.
The Hill reports that nearly a dozen Democratic members have discussed using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment on Trump in public or private. They blame him for inciting the disturbance on January 6 that prevented Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election.
Liberal Harvard Law School professor emeritus Laurence Tribe told the news organization, “If anything, the idea has waxed and waned.”
“I hear it brought up quite a bit these days by media pundits as well as by members of Congress and their staffs, some of whom have sought my advice on it.
Tribe continued by claiming that he has met with staffers from some of the most radical leftist members of Congress, such as Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Jerry Nadler, Jamie Raskin, and Jerry Nadler, who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House select committee looking into the riot (D-Fla.).
Wasserman-Schultz told The Hill, “I continue to investigate all legal options to make sure that those who attempted to undermine our democracy are not in charge of it.
