In the December 4-3 vote, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from the race because of the 14th Amendment, Section 3. The post-Civil War-era provision bars anyone who has ...
“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...
In declaring his ineligibility in December for the Republican primary, the Colorado Supreme Court leant on a little-known, Civil War-era constitutional amendment. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment ...
Ordinarily, the courts carefully scrutinize state restrictions on the right to vote to assess their constitutionality under the equal protection clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...