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The Constitution sets the rules that govern allegiance and eligibility for service in Congress chiefly through Article I’s membership qualifications, Article I’s internal-judging clause, and Article V...
The primary precedents governing challenges to a Member of Congress’s qualifications are congressional precedents and Supreme Court decisions that narrowly constrain exclusion to the Constitution’s ex...
Federal courts have intervened in member-qualification disputes only rarely and narrowly; the Supreme Court has held that the Constitution’s textual qualifications for Congress are exclusive and that ...