Jamie Raskin in ABC This Week interviews for 2022 races

On Crime: 14th Amendment might prevent Trump from holding office again

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says anybody who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, who violates and betrays that oath by participating in an insurrection or rebellion against the Union shall never be allowed to hold public office again. That was adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction period. It was used then. And it may indeed depending on what we find Donald Trump did: [should his actions on Jan. 6] block him ever being able to run for office again.

We had 61 federal and state courts reject all of their claims of electoral corruption and fraud, and still they're out there propounding lies. That is a totalitarian tactic, and we have to call it for what it is and say, that's not going to work in American democracy in the 21st century. We have to defend our democrat institutions, against all enemies, foreign and Domestic, and again all those authoritarian governments abroad that are trying to destabilize American democratic culture.

Source: ABC This Week 2022 interview on Jan. 6 events Jan 9, 2022

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