Unlike in the case of President, the 14th amendment can be used against State and local officials without an act of Congress. This protects against insurrectionists on the State and local level.
I love how the article doesn’t name coy boy. Let him ride off into the sunset, personally insignificant, yet doing so much good by preventing other insurrectionists from holding office. Thanks, coy boy, and good riddance.
The article reads like it’s a bad thing. “Barred for life based on a post-civil war addition…” I’m completely comfortable saying that if you participate in an attempt to overthrow the government, you should never be able to hold office ever again. It’s sad that we’re considering that “a new frontier,” and not just something that’s always been true but never had to be used.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Taken together, the actions herald a new legal landscape as the liberal groups that pushed the issue of Trump’s disqualification to the Supreme Court reboot efforts to target state and local officials linked to Jan. 6.
“This is a bit of returning to the course we expected to be following, which was holding individuals accountable, who are low-level officials, who still broke their oath by coming to D.C., engaging in insurrection,” said Stuart McPhail, an attorney with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning group whose lawsuit against Trump ended up at the Supreme Court.
Ron Fein, legal director of Free Speech For People, which brought several other actions seeking to disqualify Trump and Republican members of Congress for their role in the Capitol attack, wouldn’t comment on his group’s plans.
The lawsuit against him cited his violation of Section 3, which prohibits anyone who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against it or gave “aid and comfort” to its enemies, from holding future office.
Based on the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Trump disqualification case, a state or local official removed under Section 3 could still hold federal office, all the way up to president, unless Congress acted.
He and his defense attorney said Monday’s dismissal by the Supreme Court holds ominous implications, creating a pathway for partisan actors to harness Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in unpredictable ways in the future.
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Bad bot. Your summaries butcher the articles, removing context and creating misappropriations.