President Joe Biden, along with many commentators, has speculated that a president can bypass Congress by using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. But we have no precedent for how that would ...
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars current and former federal, state and military officials who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country from holding office again.
Some lawsuits invoke the Equal Protection Clause of the 14 th amendment which was ratified after slavery was abolished and says no state may “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal ...
The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then “engaged” in “insurrection or rebellion” against it. A growing number of legal scholars ...
“OK, section 3 of the 14 th Amendment clearly states that a felon cannot take elective office – even if that candidate is the winner of the election,” the post reads. "So, even if trump ...
"Reminder: Donald Trump is still possibly barred from being sworn in as President for inciting an insurrection in violation of Sect 3 of the 14th Amendment," one Threads post said.
Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...