When Donald Trump pronounces he’s working for the presidency, as he’s anticipated to do, a watchdog team plans to report a problem below the 14th Modification, which bars reelection of officers who engaged in or supported an rebel.
“The proof that Trump engaged in rebel is overwhelming,” Noah Bookbinder, president of Electorate for Accountability and Ethics in Washington, stated in a commentary final week. “We’re in a position, prepared and in a position to do so to verify the Charter is upheld and Trump is averted from maintaining place of work.”
Segment 3 of the 14th Modification, handed after the Civil Conflict, bars any officers who’ve taken an oath of place of work to protect the federal government from reelection in the event that they “engaged in rebel or rebel” in opposition to the federal government — or have “given help or convenience to the enemies thereof.”
CREW despatched a letter to Trump on Thursday alerting him to the deliberate problem if he pronounces his candidacy for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
“CREW believes you might be barred from maintaining place of work Underneath Segment 3 of the Fourteenth Modification since you engaged in rebel in opposition to the federal government you swore to protect,” states the letter. “By way of summoning a violent mob to disrupt the transition of presidential energy mandated by way of the Charter after having sworn to protect the similar, you made your self ineligible to carry public place of work once more.”
The “proof that you just engaged in rebel as pondered within the Fourteenth Modification — together with by way of mobilizing, inciting and helping the ones attacking the Capitol — is overwhelming,” the letter provides.
“Should you search elected or appointed place of work in spite of being constitutionally disqualified … we and others dependable to the Charter will protect it,” the message warns.
Even though a equivalent motion by way of a bunch of citizens failed previous this yr to dam Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) run for reelection, a problem by way of CREW and different organizations succeeded in opposition to an respectable in New Mexico in September.
A pass judgement on in that state dominated according to a lawsuit by way of CREW and others that Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be got rid of from place of work, noting the assault at the U.S. Capitol was once an rebel and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him below Segment 3 of the 14th Modification.
The verdict marked the primary time since 1869 {that a} courtroom has disqualified a public respectable below the modification — and the primary time any courtroom has branded the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol an rebel, CREW famous.
