The US Constitution's 14th Amendment, section 3 prohibits Donald J Trump from ever holding any public office, without exceptions.
This is not only posted by me, this was written for #WeThePeople to see and read. This is a political two-by-four for Donnie.
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under 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 of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." https://mail.google.com/mail/u/3/#inbox/FMfcgzGtwgbtdTVWdhPpGxfPmqlgBlr…
According to KO's Countdown published reports, the former guy cannot be president – cannot run for president – cannot become president – cannot hold office – unless two-thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty for his conduct on January 6th." That’s from Will Baude, Faculty Director of the Constitutional Law Institute at the University of Chicago Law School, member of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society, and former clerk for Chief Justice Roberts. He was summarizing, for The New York Times, an article he and Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen will publish next year in the University of Pennsylvania law review.
They insist that there is no doubt Trump has triggered the disqualification aspect of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and that it should be applied automatically by State Secretaries of State. “Section 3’s disqualification rule may and must be followed – applied, honored, obeyed, enforced, carried out – by anyone whose job it is to figure out whether someone is legally qualified to office.” The Federalist Society constitutional scholars say it's automatic. If you put Trump on the ballot, you are breaking the law.
And as academic and theoretical and dilettantish as this all sounds, these guys think it should be made real: “There are many ways that this could become a lawsuit presenting a vital constitutional issue that potentially the Supreme Court would want to hear and decide,” said Professor Paulsen. And Paulsen is a distinguished university chair and professor of Constitutional Law and Federal Courts at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. And Steven Calabresi, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, co-founder, and co-chairman of the Federalist Society, says the Baude-Paulsen article is “a tour de force" that proves “Trump is ineligible to be the ballot, and each of the 50 state secretaries of state must print ballots without his name on them,” unquote – or they may be sued.
There could be enough to knock Trump off the ballot in individual states. And with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) having successfully sued to remove a January 6th insurrectionist from office in New Mexico, there is a guidebook to how to stop Trump before he starts.