{"id":5057,"date":"2023-09-04T19:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2023-09-04T19:05:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:05:30","slug":"legal-theorists-try-to-attack-trump-their-argument-may-be-dead-on-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/2026\/legal-theorists-try-to-attack-trump-their-argument-may-be-dead-on-arrival\/nleahy\/2023\/09\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Theorists Try To Attack Trump. Their Argument May Be Dead On Arrival."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A novel legal theory from two conservative legal scholars published<\/a> in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review that a section of the 14th<\/sup> Amendment<\/a> makes Donald Trump ineligible to run for president may be getting a court hearing in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ballot Access news editor emeritus Richard Winger notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On August 24, a Florida voter, Lawrence Caplan, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from being placed on 2024 ballots as a presidential candidate. Caplan v Trump, s.d., 0:23cv-61618.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Caplan, who appears to be representing himself in the case, writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which provides for the disqualification of an individual who commits insurrection against our government has remained on the books for some one hundred and fifty plus years without ever facing question as to its legitimacy. While one can certainly argue that it has not been thoroughly tested, that fact is only because we have not faced an insurrection against our federal government such as the one while we faced on January 6, 2021. It should also be noted that President Trump has since made statements to the effect that should he be elected, he would advocate the total elimination of the US Constitution and the creation of a new charter more in line with his personal values.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Winger believes Caplan\u2019s suit is \u201cmisguided:\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fourteenth Amendment \u201cinsurrection clause\u201d bars individuals from being sworn in to certain offices, but it does not bar them from seeking the office. When the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, there was no mechanism to prevent any voter from voting for any candidate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Caplan appears to be taking the law review article\u2019s authors, William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulson, at their word<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“No official should shrink from these duties. It would be wrong — indeed, arguably itself a breach of one’s constitutional oath of office — to abandon one’s responsibilities of faithful interpretation, application, and enforcement of Section Three,” Bode and Paulsen write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternatively, ordinary citizens could file challenges on the same grounds with state election officials themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And other such suits may emerge over the coming weeks. I\u2019m not convinced any federal judge will be willing to read Section 3 like Baude and Paulson say it should be. It\u2019s not because the Section\u2019s words aren\u2019t clear \u2013 they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My concerns are akin to those of Cato\u2019s Walter Olsen, who writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026no one should assume that just because Baude and Paulsen have made a powerful intellectual case for their originalist reading, that the Supreme Court will declare itself convinced and disqualify Trump. Justice Antonin Scalia memorably described himself as a \u201cfaint\u2010\u200bhearted originalist,\u201d which captures something important about the thinking of almost every Justice\u2014if overruling a wrongly decided old case threatens to disrupt settled expectations to the point of spreading chaos and grief through society, most of them will refrain. Stare decisis, and a general preference for continuity in law, still matters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Exactly. While some judges may nurse images of themselves as bold crusaders for justice, most jurists aren\u2019t eager to upset established practice and precedent on a whim. Though, to be fair to the times when such upsets have occurred \u2013 Brown v. Board of Education<\/a>, for example, or Griswold v. Connecticut<\/a> \u2013 have been warranted, necessary, and beneficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that apply in the Caplan case? A court will decide. But as I\u2019ve long said about Trump, the only court he cares about is public opinion. If voters reject him, that will carry more weight and sanction than any court could ever deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of\u00a0Great America News Desk. It first appeared in American Liberty News<\/a>. Republished with permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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