Two conservative law professors argue that Donald Trump is ineligible to serve as president again due to a section of the Constitution that prohibits anyone who has engaged in insurrection from holding office. AdvertisementThe 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, in the wake of the Civil War, and is most noteworthy for extending civil and legal rights to formerly enslaved people. Baude and Paulsen noted that Section Three of the amendment was designed to address a specific problem that arose after the Civil War. Not since the Civil War has there been so serious a threat to the foundations of the American constitutional republic,” Baude and Paulsen wrote. The professors explored the provision at length, parsing whether Trump violated it, and how it could be applied and enforced.

Source: Huffington Post August 11, 2023 20:08 UTC