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that section of the constitution says bars from office any state or federal officeholder who has taken an oath to for the constitution but who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. that ruling in new mexico was the first time since 1869 court disqualified an american public official under that clause in the u.s. constitution. it was also the first time that the january 6th attack was formally found by a court to be an insurrection against the united states. although that sounds like kind of a technical determination, a finding like that has lots of consequences. and now this has happened again. not in new mexico, but alaska. a judge in alaska has just ruled that a sitting state representative, a republican member of the state legislature in alaska, is likely ineligible to hold public office, including the office he is in now, because he is a member of the far-right pro-trump paramilitary group the