https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/…
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, 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. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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In my opinion, when the 2nd impeachment failed in the Senate, they should have immediately called for votes in both houses to see if Donald Trump could serve as President again. Without
both houses voting by
⅔’s majorities to
allow it, we would not be where we are today, but they failed to imagine that Americans would be stupid enough to elect him again after the events of January 6. 2021.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/03/01/underestimate/…
No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
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