Does the Constitution prohibit Trump from being president again?

According to this recent essay in The Atlantic authored by J. Michael Luttig (a former federal judge) and Laurence H. Tribe (a retired law professor), the former commander-in-chief is a “treasonous president” who is prohibited from federal office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (quoted in full below). Really? Although Judge Luttig and Professor Tribe have received a lot of liberal media attention lately, having taught constitutional law for 20+ years I am highly skeptical of their Trumpian conclusion. Nevertheless, as a public service I will go ahead and review their 30-paragraph polemic in my next post.

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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1 Response to Does the Constitution prohibit Trump from being president again?

  1. Pingback: Putting the *con* in constitutional law: a critique of Luttig & Tribe’s unprecedented interpretation of the disqualification clause | prior probability

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