John, Former President Donald Trump has officially been indicted for a historic third time, this time for conspiring to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In a statement released tonight with our partners at Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, we welcome the U.S. Department of Justice’s detailed four-count criminal indictment of disgraced ex-president Donald Trump. The allegations in this criminal indictment are entirely consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause (Section 3) which says: “No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States … who, having previously taken an oath … as an officer of the United States … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” Although the Department of Justice did not specifically charge Trump under the criminal insurrection statute, both historical precedent and modern judicial decisions confirm that the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause does not require prior conviction (or even charging) of a criminal offense; indeed, the vast majority of disqualified ex-Confederates were never charged with any crimes for their participation in that rebellion. These criminal charges will hold Trump accountable in the criminal justice system, but states don’t need any permission from federal prosecutors to move forward on excluding him from presidential ballots under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. Sign the petition: Bar Trump from the Ballot. Secretaries of State and chief election officials have a duty to follow the mandate of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, use the power that Justice Gorsuch confirms they have, and refuse to list Trump on presidential ballots. If they don’t, we’re ready to sue. This is about more than Donald Trump. This is about protecting the future of our democracy and ensuring that no one, not even the president, is above the law. Sign if you agree: Trump is disqualified. In solidarity,
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