Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office through Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but lawmakers must act now | The Hill

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5055171-constitution-insurrection-trump-disqualification/

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26 comments

  1. This is what America wanted. They should get it. No matter how horrible it gets.

  4. # 14th Amendment Section 3 of the Constitution

    >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*** **co*****mfort to the enemies thereof***. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

    This Constitutional Amendment was created after the Civil War to prevent Confederate Generals and sympathizers from being in positions of power in the Federal Government again such that they could take over the USA from the inside.

    This is not a crazy theory, it is one of the Constitutional Amendments. This is what upholding the Constitution really means when they say “We have a duty to uphold The Constitution”.

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_3:_Disqualification_from_office_for_insurrection_or_rebellion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_3:_Disqualification_from_office_for_insurrection_or_rebellion)

  8. Ya right the dems actually trying to do something to save this country?? Don’t fucking count on it.

  9. Good luck getting the traitors in congress to approve this

  11. Literally been down this road. Congress is not going to do it so why rehash it.

  14. He hasn’t been convicted of it, so SCROTUS will back him. This is a pipe dream.

  17. Turns out laws and the Constitution are toothless without a legislature and judiciary motivated to uphold them.

  18. But we all know that this won’t happen. Everyone is afraid of upsetting him and becoming his target.

  20. You mean the vast majority of maga congress members ?

  21. Guys, it’s not going to happen, it should, but it won’t. They are cowards.

  23. They won’t stop him. It’d be nice but this wouldn’t come across as a legitimate means to do this (despite that it is.) then they’ll use this as a reason to fight.

  24. There isn’t 2/3 vote in Congress to accomplish that. I hate when y’all tease me like that.

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