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The courts alone can’t save democracy twenty eleventh edition
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The courts alone can’t save democracy twenty eleventh edition
One of the most important questions in American constitutional politics is whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from holding the presidency again.
CHICAGO — A new legal effort to prevent Donald Trump from retaking the presidency next year is afoot. Its backers rely on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which bars from office anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion … or given aid or comfort to the enemies” of the United States.
Putin’s ambitions reach beyond Russia’s near abroad and to the international system itself, in which it seeks to regain and retain its position as a great power.
For many Americans, Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles confirm the deeply corrupt and repulsive character of the...