A Supreme Court With Common Sense Would Disqualify Trump

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Constitutional law professor Michael Gerhardt tells The New Abnormal that a common sense reading of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution would render Donald Trump ineligible to become president again after inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“Section three of the 14th Amendment provides, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘any officers, civil or otherwise of the United States, who have engaged in incitement or rebellion are rendered ineligible to take another oath of office for some federal position,’” he told The New Abnormal’s co-host Danielle Moodie. “According to the real world constitution, section three of the 14th Amendment... can reasonably be read as precluding Donald Trump from running for the presidency.”

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