John, The US Supreme Court today has made a mockery of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Supreme Court has ruled that--despite inciting and facilitating a violent insurrection that defeated federal law enforcement, conquered the seat of our national government, nearly assassinated the vice president and key congressional leaders, and blocked Congress from certifying his electoral defeat, thus disrupting the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation’s history--the disgraced ex-president Donald Trump can run for office again because this critical provision of the Constitution, designed to prevent exactly this situation, cannot be enforced. This dangerous ruling encourages Trump--and those who follow his example--to engage in more insurrections and disregard more broadly the Constitution. As one Senator explained in 1866 when advocating for Section 3, “the man who has once violated his oath will be more liable to violate his fealty to the Government in the future.” The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment learned this lesson in blood and gave us Section 3 to prevent a repeat. With today’s ruling, the Supreme Court has utterly failed in its duty to uphold this constitutional mandate at this critical moment in history. We know the truth: Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment makes clear that any elected official, including the president, who takes an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and then engages in insurrection is disqualified from future public office. Every court and state official that has addressed that issue — in Colorado, Maine, and Illinois — concluded that Trump engaged in insurrection on January 6th and is therefore disqualified from the presidency. Further, neither the Supreme Court nor Trump’s lawyers denied that he engaged in insurrection. Free Speech For People proudly pioneered the application of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to hold Trump and other insurrectionists accountable, and we could not have made it this far without your support. While today’s ruling did not uphold Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, we know we are on the right side of history. We will continue to fight to defend our democracy and our Constitution across the country. Thank you for standing with us. In solidarity,
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