Why Trump Should Not Be Removed, v3

I’ve written a couple of short pieces about the move to invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to block Donald Trump from the ballot. The gist of those two swipes was this: That while electing Donald Trump to a second term of office would be catastrophic, removing him from the ballot based on a forgotten snippet of the 14th Amendment would be catastrophic as well. <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/trump-disqualification-colorado-ballot-hail-mary.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">My first swipe</a> grounded that argument in the view that Trump’s actual intent on January 6 could not qualify as “insurrection or rebellion.” His aim, I believe, was to get Congress to send the decision back to the states (bracketing the obvious point that Congress has no such power), not to direct the “terrifying and stupid” “muppet reboot of the Vietnam War” as Lucy Liu so brilliantly described it.  <a href="https://lessig.medium.com/why-trump-should-not-be-removed-v3-8f3b07f740a8">Website</a>