The 14th Amendment: Why Is the President Excluded From the Insurrection Clause? | Matt Christiansen

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As the Supreme Court agrees to hear the Trump ballot challenge, a question they may consider: why does the insurrection clause exclude the president? What was the intent of the 14th Amendment authors? Matt Christiansen breaks down the history.

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Items referenced:
Colorado Judge Keeps Trump on Ballot but Finds He ‘Engaged in Insurrection’: https://archive.ph/Yfwzv
Fourteenth Amendment text: https://bit.ly/3vxLk3t
ArtVI.C3.1 Oaths of Office Generally: https://bit.ly/47rwwB1
ArtII.S1.C8.1 Oath of Office for the Presidency: https://bit.ly/3HbPCAl
The Fourteenth Amendment's Ambiguous Section Three: https://bit.ly/3TQ5mAv
Trump Should Not Be Disqualified by an Ambiguous Clause: https://archive.ph/Hdjur
Excluding the President from Section 3 is not “absurd”: https://bit.ly/3S6pUDy
Efforts to Show that Exempting the President from the Scope of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment isn't Absurd Underscore that it Actually is: https://bit.ly/3RQeJ0v
The Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment: https://bit.ly/3vqeNMQ
What the framers said about the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause: Analysis: https://abcn.ws/3tFGhxy
Attorney General: Reverdy Johnson: https://bit.ly/48mQnT7

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