(January 10, 2021 at 6:14 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: All the talk about impeachment and/or the 25th Amendment seems unnecessary. Here's what your 14th amendment has to say about it:
Quote:No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
It would appear from this that Trump, along with every single senator and representative who either called for or supported the riot is already out of office. There's nothing in the amendment about a vote being required to remove them (although there might be some case law and congressional procedures of which I'm unaware), just a 2/3 vote to let them back in.
Boru
That might have been referring to people before attaining office. I'm not sure, the constitution can be tricky to interpret sometimes.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller