The Constitution disqualifies those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office, and two conservative law professors say that applies to the former president. In a 126-page law review posted last month, they put a new focus on the Constitution’s response to the nation’s greatest insurrection and find significantly higher odds that the Supreme Court will be confronted with the claim …
After three indictments of former President Donald Trump, the fourth one in Georgia came not as a surprise but as a powerful exposition of the scope of Trump's efforts to remain in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election. Recent public comments from liberal constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe and conservative jurist and former federal judge Michael Luttig – who has …
Former President Donald Trump's potential bid for the 2024 presidency faces a new hurdle as legal scholars William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen argue his eligibility could be limited by the Constitution. Baude and Paulsen, from the University of Chicago and the University of St. Thomas respectively, contend that Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election could classify as "insurrection," …
A pair of conservative legal scholars argue in a newly released paper that, under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, former President Donald Trump is disqualified to hold office again, echoing a case long made by progressive experts and watchdogs. The clause states that "no person shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or elector of president and vice …
