Dozens Of Historians File SCOTUS Brief In Support Of Removing Trump From Ballot

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/historians-support-removing-trump-ballot-scotus_n_65b7e900e4b01c5c3a37aaf0

More than two dozen United States historians have filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of efforts by Colorado and other states to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, arguing that the Constitution’s insurrection clause applies to the former president and front-runner for the GOP nomination.

The filing was signed by 25 decorated historians whose areas of expertise include “the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Southern ‘redemption,’ and American history more broadly, including politics, voting, and elections.” The group said they “have professional interests in helping” the Supreme Court decide whether a certain provision of the 14th Amendment applies to a president, and whether such implementation would require additional action from Congress, “by appropriately analyzing probative historical evidence.”

“For historians, contemporary evidence from the decision-makers who sponsored, backed, and voted for the 14th Amendment is most probative,” the brief states. “Analysis of this evidence demonstrates that decision-makers crafted Section 3 to cover the President and to create an enduring check on insurrection, requiring no additional action from Congress.”

In December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should be removed from the state’s ballot because his violation of the 14th Amendment makes him ineligible for office. The amendment ― ratified in 1868 after the Civil War ― states that anyone who has engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” despite swearing an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution must be prohibited from public office.

According to the historians, the amendment’s provision is “not limited to keeping ex-Confederates from holding federal or state offices.” Rather, they say, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment serves as a “guard against the corruption of government by anyone involved in future insurrections who had taken an oath to support the U.S. Constitution.”

EXCERPT

LINK to Brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/298895/20240126151819211_23-719%20Brief.pdf

[christian]

WHEN TRUMP IS BLOCKED FROM OFFICE, THE wOKE PC WHORES WILL RUN WILD and rampant as never before, even more roughshod over America, as the useful whores will go hiding under rocks and more roughshod over us with AMNESIA AND ENDLESS DENIALS AS TO HOW IT ALL TURNS OUT Again!
History will repeat itself even worse than before!  Hell will reign and the useful whores will deny, deny, deny, as they smile because they got their way.
 

[libertybele]

What is important to remember is Trump has NOT been found guilty. So, how can they file a brief based on insurrection??

[Timber Rattler]

What is important to remember is Trump has NOT been found guilty. So, how can they file a brief based on insurrection??

Right...that's the weakness in their argument, since nearly all the high-ranking Confederate politicians were ultimately allowed to return to federal office in Washington, and a few even to the U.S. Army (most notably Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee during the Spanish American War).  That provision was NEVER enforced.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

What is important to remember is Trump has NOT been found guilty. So, how can they file a brief based on insurrection??

That"s what I'd like to know!!
 https://www.ft.com/content/4439d472-d427-4478-9c8f-94f6087980b7

   "The Senate voted 57-43 on the question of whether Trump was guilty of inciting an insurrection. Seven Republicans — Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse and Pat Toomey — joined Democrats in voting to convict the president.

Trump was cleared because two-thirds of the Senate would have needed to find the former president guilty for him to have been convicted under the US constitution. "