He Fourteenth Amendment News Today

Something extraordinary is set to happen on Thursday: The Supreme Court will interpret part of the Constitution for the first time. Neither the justices nor any of their predecessors have ever heard a case about the Disqualification Clause, a post-Civil War provision in the Fourteenth Amendment that bars participants in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding political office. The court is stepping out into freshly fallen snow.The stakes in Trump v. Anderson could not be higher. I...

Will the Supreme Court perform its paramount role of enforcing the United States Constitution and disqualify Donald Trump?

Massachusetts is the latest state to reject a bid to remove ex-President Donald Trump from the GOP primary ballot, saying Trump's eligibility is not "ripe" because he has not yet been officially declared the nominee.

For this month’s edition of The Inside Story, TNR editor Michael Tomasky spoke with Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, the nonprofit group behind the effort to use Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024. The section bars people from holding public office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.The Colorado Supreme Court sided with CREW in...

Cases against Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn and others set the stage for a historic Supreme Court battle next month.

Anyone who has previously taken an oath of office is precluded from public office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Tuesday that a Florida law barring Chinese citizens from owning land in the state violates a federal housing law and the Fourteenth Amendment. “These unlawful provisions will cause serious harm to people simply because of their national origin, contravene federal civil rights laws, undermine constitutional rights, and will not…