Steven Yates, PhD
November 3, 2023
An Open Letter Sent to Donald’s Legal Team in Colorado
This will be short. I promise. Those claiming that Trump is disqualified from running for the presidency next year because the 14th Amendment, Section 3, bars anyone having engaged in an “insurrection” from running for (or holding) public office, haven’t read the entire Amendment.
I’m not a lawyer or law professor or other legal “expert,” but I can read plain English.
Section 5 of the 14th Amendment specifically designates Congress as authorized to make this judgment, not any court — state or federal.
What Section 5 states: “The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
If Judge Wallace rules that Trump’s name cannot appear on the Colorado ballot next year, the ruling will need to be appealed immediately to the Supreme Court with this information, lest the ruling be precedent-setting (Minnesota, Michigan, elsewhere).
If the Supremes follow the Constitution, they will drop everything else and reverse the Colorado ruling immediately.
If, on the other hand, Judge Wallace decides in favor of keeping Trump’s name on the ballot and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington appeals that decision, the Supreme Court should decline to hear the appeal.
My longer article from September expands on all this, including whether the claim that Trump is an “insurrectionist” is true or media narrative.
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