Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes Comments on the 14th Amendment and Donald Trump

UPDATE 9/5/23: Secretary Fontes did an excellent interview with Brian Tailor Cohen in which he laid out the issues regarding disqualifications under the 14th Amendment very clearly and it’s worth a watch: With the twice impeached, four time indicted, and found liable for sexual assault in New York former President Trump still running to reclaim … Read more

Trump Disqualified (from CREW - CitizensForEthics.org)

Arizona, Trump and the 14th Am’s Disqualification Clause (NEWS ANALYSIS)

A new election litigation frontier is a near certainty as a result of events over the weekend. Like last week’s Hints from the Courts news analysis, this article aims to alert readers to intriguing developments and analyze the Arizona angles.

Since the January 6 insurrection, there has been discussion of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, called the Disqualification Clause. On Saturday morning, The Atlantic released a bombshell article co-authored by retired Judge Michael Luttig and Professor Laurence Tribe, two of the most highly regarded constitutional scholars of our time. One is a conservative, the other a liberal. Citing an upcoming law review article (available in preprint) by two other constitutional scholars, William Baude and Michael Stokes, both members of the Federalist Society, the Luttig/Tribe article is entitled:

The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again: The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment.

This article is not about the intricacies of their constitutional analysis. Rather, we address the practicality of the process of whether the former President might be kept off of – or, removed from – ballots in the elaborate process of working towards November 2024. We will focus on Arizona while noting that Arizona is only one of the 50 states that will be involved in this.

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Laurence Tribe Schools The Apologists For The Extremist GQP Economic Terrorists On The Federal Debt Limit (Updated)

The New York Times published an opinion from former jurist Michael McConnell, a professor and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and also a senior fellow at the ultra-conservative Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense. I suppose this is because of the … Read more

‘America Does Not Negotiate With Terrorists’ – Invoke the 14th Amendment Against The Unconstitutional Federal Debt Ceiling

How often have we heard the assurances over time that “America does not negotiate with terrorists“? And yet we have 147 insurrectionist Republicans who voted not to certify the 2020 election and who gave, and continue to give, aid and comfort to the violent MAGA thugs who tried to take the Capitol by force on … Read more