The 14th Amendment bars anyone who has engaged in insurrection or given aid or comfort to insurrectionists from holding office again. This could be used to bar Trump from running for president again.
outside the White House — as an “insurrection,” as its aim was to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election. Under this line of argument, Trump’s speech could feasibly be seen as giving “aid” to those who attacked the Capitol., Bookbinder promised that he and CREW would block Trump from running in the 2024 presidential election, “based on [his] engaging in the insurrection that culminated on January 6, 2021.
“The evidence that you engaged in insurrection as contemplated by the Fourteenth Amendment — including by mobilizing, inciting, and aiding those who attacked the Capitol — is overwhelming,” Bookbinder told Trump. So far, such a lawsuit has not yet materialized, even as Trump has been on the campaign trail for the GOP nomination.
Although CREW rightfully pointed out that indictments cannot prevent a person from running for the presidency,Fifty-two percent of Americans believe Trump has committed a serious crime at some point in his life, according to a/YouGov poll conducted at the end of May. Furthermore, 62 percent of the poll’s respondents said that being found guilty of a serious crime — including being indicted for mishandling secretive government records — should disqualify a person from the presidency.
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