John,
As you may have heard, CREW is preparing to take action to enforce Donald Trump’s disqualification from office, based on his incitement of insurrection following the 2020 election.
In a moment, I’ll explain how we plan to do this. But first, I’m asking you to make a 2X matched donation before our match expires at midnight. Doubling your donation will help us get the job done →
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, contains a provision that most people have forgotten about in the 150 years since:
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says that if a person swears an oath to support the Constitution, then engages in insurrection against it, that person is disqualified from office.
What the framers of the 14th Amendment knew is that people who try to overthrow the government and overturn democracy shouldn’t be allowed to lead it.
CREW dug into the historical precedent and found eight examples of people who were formally disqualified under the 14th Amendment, including several Confederate leaders.
That may have been many years ago, but this amendment was truly created for the moment in which we find ourselves. We faced an effort to overturn a free and fair election to keep someone in power who had lost, and to do it violently.
The January 6th insurrection is exactly the kind of event that this part of the 14th Amendment was written to address.
CREW has been methodically setting out what this law says, what the legal precedent is, how it applies to the January 6th insurrection and why Donald Trump specifically is somebody who engaged in insurrection and is disqualified from office.
John, we’ve been building our case for months.
We started by setting legal precedent when we represented New Mexico residents in a legal action that resulted in the disqualification of former County Commissioner Couy Griffin under the 14th Amendment and the judge’s finding that January 6th was an insurrection.
Then we released a report laying out 15 examples of federal judges blaming Trump for the insurrection.
Then we released a report identifying 174 January 6th defendants who said that they went to DC and the Capitol on that day because Trump told them to.
Finally, this month, we released our most comprehensive report yet, putting all of this together (in 90 pages of detailed findings) to make the case that Donald Trump specifically caused the insurrection and is disqualified from ever holding office again.
We're preparing to take action based on what we found in this report. John, we need your help to get the job done.
Make a matched donation before midnight tonight to help us take action to disqualify Trump from office →
Thank you for your unwavering support,
Noah Bookbinder
President
CREW
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