Mark Sumner on Nostr: News outlets and pundits keep claiming that the 14th Amendment was about blocking ...
News outlets and pundits keep claiming that the 14th Amendment was about blocking political candidates who had served the Confederacy during the Civil War. This is not true. Had Congress wanted to do this, a law would have sufficed. It’s an Amendment precisely because it was meant to address *future* insurrections. It’s not some archaic rule being poorly applied in the present. It’s a living Amendment performing as intended.
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