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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

No difference in process between the two scenarios is contemplated (i.e. not "until the President elect shall have qualified"). If the intent was for the VP to get a full term out of this, 20th would have paired "failure to qualify" with "failure to live" in the prior sentence, sans "acting" label.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Failure to qualify is dealt with in the same sentence as failure to choose, with the same, single prescription for both: VP serves as acting president only "until a President shall have qualified."

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"Acting president" is "until someone qualifies," not One Weird Trick around the 12th. If Trump's votes are rejected and a House vote deemed necessary, a party line vote between Harris and "present" still wins her 38 states (every state with at least 1 Democrat). Nominations closed on 12/17.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Lifting ban under the 14th requires 2/3 of both houses. If at least one house has such a vote and it fails to reach the 2/3 threshold, it demonstrates the ban (found by 3 states, never directly addressed by SCOTUS) still stands.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Why impeach when you can enforce existing prohibitions and go straight to Harris? bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

When will you yourself stand up? When will you stop calling Donald Trump "President?" Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from serving in public office. When will this finally get so much as a mention in Congress? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

How can you protect Medicaid when you still won't act to protect Constitutional order? After attacking the Capitol, Donald Trump has been prohibited from serving in public office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Why the continued silence? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

One sign of an unhealthy democracy is when elected representatives choose to ignore clear Constitutional language. Donald Trump has been barred from public office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment since 2021. Why is the supreme Law of the Land still unenforced? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

You're allowing Trump to "turn back the clock" by continuing to pretend that his insurrection on January 6, 2021 didn't happen. Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, insurrections have consequences. How about working for "No person shall" for a change? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The plan is to ignore the Constitution and allow an oathbreaking insurrectionist back into the White House. Everything hinges on that. By "defending norms" maintaining your silence on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, you're not fighting, you're collaborating. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The Big Lie of 2025, the one that both parties are complicit in perpetuating, is that Donald Trump is Constitutionally allowed to be President. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits insurrectionists from returning to power. Where are your short-form videos on this? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Unless one of the strategies discussed is enforcing the Constitutional prohibition against Trump serving in public office, then you yourselves are aiding Trump's "billionaire buddies." "No person shall." Support and defend those words. #14thNow

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

All the more reason to recognize that Trump has been disqualified by the 14th Amendment since before Inauguration Day, requiring that the only qualified person to receive electoral votes for President be sworn in. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"Reckless and unsustainable" also describes the way Congress continues to abandon its sworn commitment to the Constitution. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment renders Trump ineligible to serve in office since his insurrection in 2021. When will you or your colleagues finally act? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The most important part of your message is you still addressing him as "President." What should be "loud and clear" is the Constitution you swore to support and defend. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from public office. When will that be part of your "message?" #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

There may not be a national security problem if everyone in Congress stopped pretending Trump has Constitutional authority to fire anybody. After his insurrection 4 years ago, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars him from holding public office. "No person shall." When will you speak up? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

You and your colleagues have weakened national security by pretending Trump has a Constitutional "administration" to begin with. He remains barred from office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment after his insurrection 4 years ago. Why are you letting this continue? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What both parties are doing is ignoring the clear prohibition in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against Trump being in office to begin with. If you really want to vote on something, take the vote the text requires and try to lift his ongoing ineligibility. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Your obligation to the federal constitution includes Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which (as noted by an Illinois court) prohibits Donald Trump from holding office. Does your administration plan to address this ongoing usurpation of power? #14thNow

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Jessica Denson @jessicadenson07.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Major announcement coming tonight on Lights On. This authoritarian coup must be stopped now. We cannot wait. Please join me and brilliant columnist and original #14thNOW speaker @gothamgirlblue.com LIVE at 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT. #NOWDC #3E www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-cl...

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Justice would be enforcing the Constitutional ban against him holding office after his insurrection. The prohibition in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is clear, yet you were silent on 1/6/25. When will any of you take action to support and defend the Constitution? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Will you or any of the other @democraticags.bsky.social finally address the root of this "administration" and challenge Trump's legitimacy in light of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment? You're fighting individual orders when he's Constitutionally disqualified from even holding the office. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

And you would rather help your Republican buddies by maintaining "norms" instead of enforcing the clear language of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Donald Trump remains barred from office in the wake of his insurrection 4 years ago. When will any of you finally act? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Your own integrity requires supporting and defending the Constitution. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Donald Trump from holding office. #HouseDemocrats didn't stand up on 1/6/25. When will any of you stand up on what matters most? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thousands of veterans who served were fired, while you remain in office despite your continued violation of your oath. Trump is Constitutionally barred from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. When will anybody in Congress finally support and defend the Constitution? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

You personally have an obligation to support and defend the Constitution, including the prohibition against oathbreaking insurrectionists holding office. Trump is barred from serving as President under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. When will you or your colleagues speak up on this? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Something else that violates the Constitution is Trump simply being in the White House. He remains barred from public office after inciting an insurrection by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. When will you or anybody else in Congress get around to even mentioning this? #214thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

You yourself need to recognize that, whatever presidential powers there may be, Donald Trump cannot Constitutionally wield them. You need to stop "reaching across the aisle" in support of this usurpatory farce and uphold the Constitution as written. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

You paraphrase Lincoln, yet you devalue the sacrifices of the loyal patriots at Gettysburg and elsewhere by continuing to ignore the clear Constitutional language ratified during Reconstruction. Trump is and remains barred from public office. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

One way that can be accomplished is by recognizing Donald Trump is Constitutionally barred from serving as President under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. #14thNow

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 19/02/2025

In case you missed it: federal prosecutors told a federal judge in Tennessee that Trump’s sweeping Jan. 6 pardons don’t cover a Capitol rioter who plotted to murder FBI agents who investigated him over J6. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Trump's Jan. 6 pardons don't cover Capitol rioter who plotted to kill FBI agents, DOJ says

Edward Kelley “devised a plan to murder federal, state, and local law enforcement in East Tennessee,” federal prosecutors said.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Activities of Democratic Senators and state attorneys general, but nobody in either group has yet pointed out Donald Trump's continuing constitutional disqualification under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Found this after I spotted this same account plagiarizing a Democratic MoC elsewhere rather than reposting and crediting him. bsky.app/profile/quar...

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Programming note: This text in this post from @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social is identical to a post from @reptedlieu.bsky.social that @democrats.org reposted rather than straight-up copying and pasting. @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social seems... unaffiliated with legitimate voices.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Arguably, with regards to Trump's prohibition from public office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, both parties are ignoring the plain meaning of the Constitution.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

One option uniquely available to state legislatures is the power to call a federal constitutional convention to restore constitutional order when Congress cannot or will not do so. Has the @thedlcc.bsky.social considered the option?

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Is your office or the office of any of the other @democraticags.bsky.social considering arguing that Donald Trump is not Constitutionally authorized to exercise any executive power, per Section 3 of the 14th Amendment? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Governors may need to be reminded of Trump's continuing ineligibility to serve under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. #14thNow

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J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A monthly J6 vigil when Because this cannot go unanswered

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Hank Lacey @hlacey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Colorado's House of Representatives is debating a resolution that condemns the pardons of the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists. The chamber's few Republicans are very unhappy about it.

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4peoplebythepeople.bsky.social @4peoplebythepeople.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We the people are ultimately sovereign. Government is but our agent, whether Reps or Dems, executive, or even SCOTUS. Dems can either lead the resistance or we resist them too. Dems: declare DJT an illegitimate president, call for mass peaceful protests & for removal. Uphold Constitution. Defy now.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Are there any plans by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social or any other @democraticags.bsky.social to take action against Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment? #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Enforce 14th Amdt. disqualification retroactively to Inauguration Day (if not de jure 1/6/21). Vance serves as "acting president" (as per 20th under "failure to qualify") just long enough for Harris to find a federal judge to swear her in (only non-disqualified candidate with electoral votes).

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Can't quite tell from the clip if the comparison was complimentary or derogatory. If it's derogatory, that implies that 1/6/21 was, y'know, an insurrection. And that would disqualify anybody who gave aid or comfort to the insurrection from, say, occupying the White House. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Justice for America would include finally enforcing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against the disqualified candidate currently occupying the White House. If the plain letter of the supreme Law of the Land doesn't apply to him, it doesn't apply to anybody. #14thNow

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Seriously, in 1787 the Constitutional Convention was anxious about a state's willingness to protect the future Capitol, so they insisted on the ten-mile square. In 2021, Maryland and Virginia were both more eager to defend the Capitol than was the President or, ultimately, Congress itself.

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Amendment XIV, section 3 @xivsec3.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Speaking of the MDNG, remember when the Capitol needed saving 4 years ago? Remember when Trump's Pentagon dragged their feet in giving them permission to enter DC and save Congress? Stuff like that is why Trump (among others) is constitutionally barred from serving as President again. #14thNow

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