{"id":12345,"date":"2023-09-04T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:51:37","slug":"sen-tim-kaine-says-powerful-argument-14th-amendment-could-disqualify-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/sen-tim-kaine-says-powerful-argument-14th-amendment-could-disqualify-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tim Kaine says \u2018powerful argument\u2019 14th Amendment could disqualify Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine said Sunday \u201cthere\u2019s a powerful argument to be made\u201d for barring Donald Trump from the presidential ballot based on the 14th Amendment\u2019s ban on insurrectionists holding public office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy sense is it\u2019s probably going to get resolved in the courts,\u201d Kaine said on \u201cABC This Week,\u201d adding that Democrats\u2019 focus should be on winning in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/19\/politics\/donald-trump-fourteenth-amendment-2024-race\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Legal experts have pointed to the 14th Amendment<\/a> as a potential long-shot avenue to keep Trump from becoming president. The amendment includes a post-Civil War \u201cdisqualification clause\u201d that bars anyone from holding public office if they \u201chave engaged in insurrection or rebellion.\u201d The Constitution does not, however, spell out how to enforce this ban and it has only been applied twice since the late 1800s, when it was used extensively against former Confederates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Election officials in battleground states, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/31\/politics\/state-efforts-to-disqualify-donald-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including attorneys general in Michigan and New Hampshire<\/a>, have said they\u2019re anticipating outside groups to file lawsuits on the matter, and are studying the legality of the provision and how it may disqualify Trump from appearing on ballots in their states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberal activists have championed the 14th Amendment\u2019s disqualification clause and have already vowed to file suits to disqualify the former president, a tactic they have used against other elected officials to little success \u2013 though some prominent conservative legal scholars have recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/19\/politics\/donald-trump-fourteenth-amendment-2024-race\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed the idea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine said Sunday \u201cthere\u2019s a powerful argument to be made\u201d for barring Donald Trump from the presidential ballot based on the 14th Amendment\u2019s ban on insurrectionists holding public office. \u201cMy sense is it\u2019s probably going to get resolved in the courts,\u201d Kaine said on \u201cABC This Week,\u201d adding that Democrats\u2019 focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Untitled.jpg?fit=630%2C420&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12346,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions\/12346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}