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There is no precedent really. david blight pointed out, bush v. gore is pretty close, but there is no precedent for a presidential candidate being disqualified from office for reasons like this. so, there is no existing definition in the jurisprudence that would directly relate to this case, but remember, in the election of 1876, soon after the 14th amendment, supreme court justices were involved and choosing the president then also, and as a lecture -- electoral commission was established, including five members of the supreme court, and a disputed presidential election. judges may pretty muc...
It was a referendum on the 14th amendment and it's meaning, and a referendum on reconstruction and devotes, returned a veto for a republican majority in congress, made possible the reconstruction act at the following year. i am not predicting that we will have a referendum on the 14th amendment, will have a referendum on trump's crimes, i suppose. who knows, if the court delays this, passes it, punts it somehow, that we're still debating in this in september and october, then it becomes part of the election, one would think. >> david blight, eric foner, andrew weissmann, thank you all very muc...
Final round of the faculty club table with soft professor andrew weissmann and history professor's, david blight and eric foner. professor blight, how should the supreme court define the words officer and insurrection, if they feel they have to, in section three of the 14th amendment? >> well, if the president is not an officer of the united states, and then nobody. 's he's the only person in charge of the entire nation. and by the way, framers of the 14th amendment were worried about the possibility of jefferson davis coming back in as a presidential candidate. he was ruled out eventually, by...
>> joining us now, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize -winning columnist from the washington post. also with us david blight, professor of american history and african american studies at yale university. professor blight, we just heard that president echo almost word for word what you said on this program, when he said, now, we are living in an era of a second lost cause. once again, there are some in this country trying to turn a loss into a lie, a lie which if allowed to live with once again bring terrible damage to this country. that second lost cause, something i first heard from you here. >...