Here are the big things to know. The idea of barring Trump from holding office is based on the 14th Amendment. Section 3 of the amendment notes that no one can hold office if, having previously ...

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars current and former federal ... it would have had the option to take a second, simple-majority vote to bar him from ever serving in office again.

The simple answer would be that ... As McDonald explained, Bill of Rights guarantees incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment are enforced against the states "according to the same standards ...

Colorado and Maine both cite what is known as the Disqualification Clause (Section Three of the 14th Amendment ... As Snopes has previously explained, there are two basic requirements for ...

The constitutional guarantee of citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil originates from the 14th Amendment and was upheld by the Supreme Court in the pivotal 1898 case United States v.

Invoking the 14th Amendment would almost certainly invite legal challenges which could start a separate fight on the debt ceiling. The theory takes aim at Section Four of the 14th Amendment which ...

on Nov. 8. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Sherrilyn Ifill was right in her Nov. 26 Sunday Opinion essay, “U.S. courts are afraid of the radical 14th Amendment,” that former president ...

The intent of the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause is ... for congressional amnesty in Howard's version lowered to a simple majority, rather than two-thirds. Former President Donald ...

Only one person appears to have been barred or ejected from office since Jan. 6 on the basis of the 14th Amendment — a county commissioner from New Mexico named Couy Griffin, who was booted by a ...