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The person who holds the office of president of the United States is not an officer of the U.S. because the word president was not in the amendment.
An insurrection to overthrow the electoral count in the United States Senate was not a true insurrection because there was no plan for what happened after success.
The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to solve problems after the Civil War; it doesn't apply to the present because there was no civil war.
The Fourteenth Amendment should not apply to the man who promoted the Jan. 6 insurrection because "the voters should decide."
It would be too chaotic for individual states to decide who is on their presidential ballot even though the Constitution provides for the states to run their own elections.
I predict that the Supreme Court of the United States will overrule the Supreme Court of Colorado.
I also predict that that they will not define exactly how the Fourteenth amendment should be applied to presidential candidates.
As in the example in the paragraph above, they will do what supreme lawyers do when they are confronted with problems they don't like: make stuff up.
Richard Thompson
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