In the wake of donald trump’s attempt to launch a Jan6 insurrection on our Congress, a trail of criminal destruction was left behind. Now We the People are trying to clean up the mess and find a way to impose Justice on the criminals who tried to steal our .gov from US, the People.
The first thing we learn is that We the People must not allow trump to occupy the oval office again. Now we discover that our US Constitution has already prescribed a legal means by which the chief insurrectionist of Jan6 can be legally and officially removed permanently from any further occupancy in the White House.
Our Constitutional Amendment XIV, Section 3 forbids any person who has aided insurrection from ever again having a public office.
The only question that arises is how, exactly, will this Constitutional prohibition be set in place.
Recently two of our wisest legal authorities have weighed in on the issue. Judge Michael Luttig and Professor Lawrence Tribe have expressed their opinion that this Constitutional principle is “self-executing.”
Who determines that any particular person is guilty of aiding/abetting insurrectionists? These two experts, and many others, speculate that the Secretaries of State who serve in our fifty states, will make the decision, whether trump’s name can legally be included on the ballot, or whether trump will be disqualified from candidacy, due to inciting and aiding the Jan6 insurrection.
Now we discover that there is legal precedent for this procedure.
You can learn about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjLIzh6HHE
Jessica Denson, hosting the LIGHT ON podcast on YouTube, Meidas Touch network, interviews Donald Sherman, Chief Counsel of CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON (CREW).
Mr. Sherman explains that his experience with this issue started in the wake of a disputed New Mexico election in which CREW won a precedent case in New Mexico where Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was applied.
Regarding this present situation, and the question that is raised whether or not the Jan6 riot was (legally speaking) an insurrection, Mr. Sherman explains:
“donald trump’s lawyers (have already .ed.) referred to January 6 as an insurrection. There have already been votes in the House and Senate calling Jan6 an insurrection. The Jan6 comittee reached this conclusion and recommended pursuing enforcement of Section 3 (of Amendment XIV) against the insurrectionists.”
Furthermore, Donald Sherman continues:
“Section 3 was designed, specifically, for the moment we find ourselves in.” . . .
“In the aftermath of Jan6, I feel fortunate that we could look to this document and find an answer, a clear and unambiguous answer, in that there was precedent that we could look to.” (CREW’s New Mexico case).
And Donald Sherman continues:
“. . . and if we don’t enforce Section 3 (of Amendment XIV) in this moment, it is hard to imagine a situation where we would, in the future.”
“This is the moment that Section 3 was designed to help us respond to. There was precedent after the civil war (prompting the Fourteenth Amendment) legislation demonstrating that these confederates. . . that people who engaged in insurrection against the Constituion of the US. . . were disqualified from office. The only question for us is, is there going to be precedent. . . an historical record that we leave behind . . . for generations yet unborn to ensure that this kind of insurrection that donald trump fomented-- to overturn a free and fair election--does not happen again.”
“We (CREW ) have been and we are preparing to bring litigation as soon as it is is legally allowable and strategically viable, to do so. We plan to pursue litigation to bar trump from the ballot in a number of states, based on his engagement against the Constitution of the US.”
So we learn from Donald Sherman's explanation here that there is already a legal precedent for applying Section 3 of Amendment XIV to disqualify donald trump from ever occupying a public office again.
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