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Joy Reynolds's avatar

These is exhaustively thorough, but might have stinted just a bit with "qualifying oath-holder", as I've seen some arguments saying that the wording for president is a little different than the other offices, thus they assume it is somehow special...

I think that's lame since later amendments were written by other people, and language evolves, yada yada...

joe alter's avatar

you know? I’m gonna change it to be more explicit, the construction is the result not the proof (that is below in sec 3) :

Donald J. Trump has, by the conduct alleged, disqualified himself under Section 3 from presently holding the Office of President, and from thereafter holding any office within Section 3's scope, unless that disability is removed through the constitutional mechanism for relief provided by Section 3. (4)

I’ve updated it here too (and added some more of the senate debate)

joe alter's avatar

“a qualifying oath-holder who thereafter...” is the sentance in sec 3, so that’s more precise, Trump v Anderson already decided that the president is one, was a real struggle to get it down to 27 pages (also) :-)