No. of Recommendations: 5
Clearly, an attempted insurrection happened. Clearly, that invalidates anyone involved from running for office per the Constitution.
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The implications of the questions posed by multiple justices are that
* Section 3 is NOT "self-executing",
* enforcement will REQUIRE conviction under the federal statute (originally enacted
in the 1870s, now under Title 18, Section 2383 as of 1948) for insurrection, and
* in the absence of a conviction under THAT statute, no one can be barred under Section 3
As Neil Katyal put it immediately after the conclusion of oral arguments, the Supreme Court treated the Constitution like the US tax code, looking for any loophole by which they could allow Trump to escape the clear intent of Section 3.
WTH
