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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. In December, Co

If the U.S. Supreme Court’s justices adhere to the text and history of the Constitution, they’ll agree with Trump's disqualification.

CNNNikki Haley, fresh off her Civil War history refresher on this week’s Saturday Night Live, appeared to remember what the Constitution allowed when it comes to state secession: nothing.Haley again walked back her comments saying states could choose if they wanted to secede from the U.S., telling CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that she didn’t believe the Constitution afforded them that right. It came days after she told radio host Charlamagne tha God that states like Texas could “make the d

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‘Mr Trump disqualified himself under section 3 (of the Constitution),’ former conservative federal appellate judge J Michael Luttig wrote