The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution bars from office those who "engaged in insurrection" against the United States. Ratified in 1868, the language in Section 3 of the amendment was aimed at former Confederate civilian and military leaders. "If Trump runs again in 2024, I think it's very likely that we'll see efforts to keep him off the ballot on 14th Amendment grounds," said Daniel Hemel, a University of Chicago law professor. But there is a lot of uncertainty about how it might happen and whether Congress or just state officials would be involved. "Nobody talks about it really," said Laura Edwards, a professor of legal history at Princeton who has studied the 14th Amendment.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 21, 2021 03:45 UTC