[EL] 14th Amendment, Section 3

[Ben Berwick]

Sharing a couple recent pieces that address some of these questions:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3748639

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3749407

Ben Berwick
Counsel
Protect Democracy
ben.berwick at protectdemocracy.org


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 12:47 PM Hess, Douglas (Doug) <HESSDOUG at grinnell.edu>
wrote:

> Has Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (banning from future office those
> who, if they took an oath to uphold the Constitution, engage in
> insurrection while holding elected, judicial, etc. positions at the state
> or federal level) been applied since the Civil War?
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> How would this ban be implemented or who would determine if it applies to
> last week’s events? Congress can lift the ban on holding office, so is it
> the view that they also apply the ban? Or can state and federal prosecutors
> apply this and how? Or is Section 3 viewed as a relic that only applied to
> the Civil War era?
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