Decisions in two states, Maine and Colorado, have barred former president Donald Trump from the primary ballots, as efforts to disqualify him based on the 14th Amendment gain traction.
The campaign to have former president Donald Trump removed from the ballot over his efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election has kicked into high gear, with decisions in two states, Maine and Colorado, barring him from the primary ballots. Challenges are still underway in many more states, based on an obscure clause of a constitutional amendment enacted after the Civil War that disqualifies government officials who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding office.
At the heart of the disqualification efforts is the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which was adopted in 1868 and has a section that disqualifies former government officials who have betrayed their oaths by engaging in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding office. The provision, Section 3, was intended to bar Confederate officials from serving in the US government. The provision specifically says that anyone who served as “an officer of the United States”, took an oath to support the Constitution, and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” shall not hold any government offic
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