Campaign groups have written to officials in nine states urging the former president be barred from running for office for allegedly inciting an insurrection.

  • GrimChaos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He should not be able to run based on the disqualification clause of the 14th amendment because of the instruction.

    Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3:​

    “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.”