CREW have warned Trump that they will sue to stop him if he tries to run for office again, citing the 14th Amendment, “that no individual who engages in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution shall hold any federal or state office.”
that the organization would “pursue your disqualification” if he decides to run for president in 2024.
“The United States Constitution establishes basic qualifications for holding the office of president, as well as circumstances under which an individual may be disqualified from holding future office,” Bookbinder wrote, adding that the 14th Amendment “provides that no individual who engages in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution — after having previously taken an oath to support it — shall hold any federal or state office.
Bookbinder said CREW was making the decision to take such action “based on your engaging in the insurrection that culminated on January 6, 2021,” referring to the day that a mob of Trump loyalists breached the U.S. Capitol building to interrupt the certification of the presidential election. “The evidence that you engaged in insurrection as contemplated by the Fourteenth Amendment — including by mobilizing, inciting, and aiding those who attacked the Capitol — is overwhelming,” Bookbinder went on.“Let our message be clear: if you seek office despite being disqualified under the Constitution for engaging in insurrection, we and others loyal to the Constitution will defend it,” Bookbinder said.
Use of the 14th Amendment to bar politicians from running for office is rare, and has had mixed results since the attack on Congress nearly two years ago. In that time, attempts to use the amendment to bar Republican Reps.
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