The purpose of the disqualification clause in the 14th Amendment is to prevent people from holding office who threaten democracy. Section 3 reads:
“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.”
Professor Tribe and Judge Luttig suggest that it’s the secretaries of state from each state who have the authority to refuse to put the name of any person violating the conditions set forth in Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment
It’s astonishly stupid to belief that over 60 federal judges who threw out Trump’s claims of election fraud were conspiring against him. It’s astonishingly stupid to minimize the fact that Republican generals and admirals viewed Trump as incompetent to be Commander-in-Chief. It is astonishlying stupid to minimize the fact that many Republican members of the Trump Administration hid information from him due to his irrational and impulsive behaviors. It is astonishingly stupid to discount the quitting of so many Trump attorney’s who view him as a danger to democracy. It is astonishingly stupid to trust someone who declares their innocence and yet produces no evidence to prove they are innocent. The face of what the founding fathers feared for Ametica:
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment should be reinforced by states committed to saving democracy in the United States of America.
