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The section of the US Constitution that deals with the eligibility of individuals to hold public office.
Three different legal regimes in U.S. law bear on the word “insurrection”: the criminal offense in 18 U.S.C. § 2383, the executive-deployment framework of the Insurrection Act of 1807, and the disqual...
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment—known as the Disqualification or Insurrection Clause—was born of Reconstruction to bar persons who had sworn to support the Constitution and then engaged in insur...
Yes — under current public reporting, was allowed to cast a ballot in the election unless he was physically incarcerated on Election Day or convicted in a jurisdiction whose laws remove voting rights ...
of the Fourteenth Amendment bars anyone who, after swearing an official oath, “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or gave “aid or comfort” to enemies from holding federal or state office, but the m...