9k:RD/ Fourteenth Amendment (Q17,64)
Main entry
- Fourteenth Amendment (United States) / A Confederate constitution is not legal (Amendment 14) / Black people will not be expelled from the United States population through federal or state law; Congress can block former Confederates from being elected -> If I'm reading this thing right, there's a serious loophole in it that it doesn't really prevent individual towns doing terrible things through force of law.
In relation to Donald Trump (2021/2024)
- blocking Donald Trump from taking office using section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment [1] [2]
- States can't disqualify a presidential candidate under the Fourteenth Amendment [3] -> United States case law. this is discouraging, but does make some amount of logical sense in its historical context, when the Civil War and Reconstruction were a nationwide effort and such.