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14th Amendment
February 8, 2024
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Wants No Part of Disqualifying Trump From the Ballot
The justices spent Thursday’s oral arguments looking for an off-ramp from kicking the former president out of the presidential race.
February 8, 2024
Grace Segers
How Trump’s Legal Woes Are Playing With Republican Senators
As the future of the former president’s candidacy hangs in the balance, GOP senators are taking a step back.
February 8, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Scene at Trump’s Supreme Court Case Is Creepily Cultlike
Donald Trump’s biggest fans did whatever they could to show up at the court.
February 8, 2024
Tori Otten
Trump’s Lawyer at SCOTUS Today Helped Craft Texas Anti-Abortion Law
The Supreme Court is considering whether Donald Trump can be removed from the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment. Here’s the lawyer arguing his case.
January 13, 2024
Jason Linkins
The Fourteenth Amendment Scolds Abetting Trump’s Return
The pundit class has finally found a section of the Constitution they can’t abide. By coincidence, it’s the part that’s designed to protect the nation from an insurrectionist.
November 21, 2023
Matt Ford
The Bizarre Reason a Colorado Judge Didn’t Disqualify Trump From Running in 2024
Judge Sarah Wallace found the case that the former president violated the Fourteenth Amendment compelling. Then she found a way to ignore her own judgment.
September 12, 2023
Tori Otten
“Engaged in Insurrection”: Minnesota Lawsuit Seeks to Kick Trump off Ballot
This is the second lawsuit in a week that could remove Trump from a 2024 ballot.
September 8, 2023
Matt Ford
It’s Time to Take Trump’s Disqualification From the Presidency Seriously
A burgeoning movement to remove the former president from the ballot in 2024 is forging ahead—with the Supreme Court as its final destination.
August 13, 2023
Matt Ford
The Conservative Legal Roadmap to Disqualify Trump From Office
A pair of originalist scholars say that Article 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is alive and well—and capable of ending the former president’s return to the White House.
November 2, 2022
Madiba Dennie
The Supreme Court Can’t Be Allowed to Have the Last Word on the Fourteenth Amendment
Liberals can fight back against the high court’s attack on affirmative action by illuminating the inclusive constitutionalism of our founding documents.
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