The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...
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Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars current and former federal, state and military officials who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country from holding office again.
It fails to recognize that the same word covers two distinctly different ideas: 1) complete ... within the meaning of the first section of the fourteenth amendment, than the children of subjects ...
The drafters of Sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment understood Section 5 as providing an unquestionable constitutional base for the 1866 Civil Rights Act, and Section 1 as embedding the ...
arguing that it was clear Trump engaged in insurrection in the… The nation’s highest court has never ruled on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits those who “engaged in ...