Strategy to Kick Trump Off the Ballot Under the Fourteenth Amendment Already Causing Chaos (So In Re Griffin Was Correctly Decided) | naked capitalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The conditions here are my conditions but Prosecution has defiled the sacred traditions of this place.
51% : Jurisdiction shopping followed, and we now have two decisions disqualifying Trump under Section Three, the first from the Colorado Supreme Court, the second from the Maine Secretary of State, the Maine decision citing to Colorado.
49% : -Frank Herbert, The Dosadi ExperimentAs readers who have been following along at home know, there is a concerted, bipartisan effort to use Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment (the "Disqualification Clause") as a justification for removing Trump from state Presidential ballots on the grounds that he is an insurrectionist.
40% : "Sweep and Force" originally urged that state election officials could disqualify Trump all by themselves, much as they already do for ballot eligibility requirements like age and residence.
39% : This effort started in January 2021, immediately after Biden's inaugural, but caught fire when two members of the Federalist Society, William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, published "The Sweep and Force of Section Three" ("Sweep and Force"), which argued not only that Trump was an insurrectionist, hence disqualified, but that Section Three is "self-executing," in that any official with responsibility for the ballot has the power to remove his name for that reason, no conviction in a court of law required.
31% : From the decision:The court issued its written final order on November 17, finding, by , that the events of January 6 constituted an insurrection and President Trump engaged in that insurrection.

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