John Yoo, a former Department of Justice official who wrote the infamous “torture memos” during George W. Griswold on Thursday is whether Trump violated his oath of office by inciting, participating, and engaging in an insurrection against the United States. The central question before the Supreme Court when the justices hear oral arguments in Anderson v. Nothing has happened between 18 to change the constitutional principle that a person is disqualified to lead the government whose law and election returns he violently resisted.
They would have kicked Trump to the curb when the former president tried to run for office after he fomented an insurrection, on Jan. They deliberately settled the question for the future. But they entrenched the Constitution’s understanding of an insurrection and an insurrectionist. Republican lawmakers framed and ratified Section 3 of the 14 th Amendment after the greatest insurrection in American history.