Trump could be unable to run for office again

Despite the fact that former US President Donald Trump is becoming more well-liked by the public and is facing an increasing number of indictments for allegedly interfering with the electoral process, as well as a growing sympathy factor for him, two renowned legal experts claim that Trump is ineligible to run for president again under the constitution.

According to media sources, two well-known conservative legal academics have argued that the Constitution disqualifies former President Trump from holding public office, notwithstanding the views of those on the extreme right who may depict the responsibility issue for the January 6 Capitol riot as merely another political argument.

In a law review article, conservative Federalist Society members William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas argued that Trump is already constitutionally prohibited from holding public office due to Section Three of the 14th Amendment.

This amendment, sometimes referred to as the “Disqualification Clause,” forbids any government official who swears to uphold the Constitution from serving if they later take part in or support an uprising against the United States.

According to sources, only a two-thirds majority of both chambers of Congress can take action to eliminate such a limitation.

Legal experts said that Trump’s compliance with this threshold is not at all unexpected.

The assault on the Capitol was classified as an insurrection by all three levels of government, with President Trump being the primary culprit according to many federal courts, bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate, and the nonpartisan January 6 House select committee.

He has been accused of conspiring with 18 other people, including his attorney Rudy Giuliani, to rig the 2020 election in order to annul the results and deprive eligible voters their opportunity to vote.

According to Baude and Paulsen, “Section Three requires no prior criminal-law conviction, for treason or any other defined crime, as a prerequisite for its disqualification to apply.”

The indictment of Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith for offenses relating to the upcoming election significantly strengthens the argument for his constitutional disqualification.

The Disqualification Clause has already been effectively used to encourage responsibility for the uprising, and an expert predicted that it would be applied once again in the next months to bar Trump and others from holding public office.