"I am working with a number of my colleagues ... to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th Amendment."
Appearing on CNN after the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 for 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in Colorado and other states, Rep. Jamie Raskin said he is working with other Democrat Congress members to remove Trump from the ballot through legislation.
"I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th Amendment.
"And the House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it. So, the House has already pronounced upon that," he added.
The statement comes as the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Trump can remain on the ballot in a case out of Colorado. That ruling will effect other states, such as Maine, that have said they would bar Trump from the ballot depending on the Supreme Court's ruling.
The Court stated that "if States were free to enforce Section 3 by barring candidates from running in the first place, Congress would be forced to exercise its disability removal power before voting begins if it wished for its decision to have any effect on the current election cycle. Perhaps a State may burden congressional authority in such a way when it exercises its 'exclusive' sovereign power over its own state offices."
"But," they continued, "it is implausible to suppose that the Constitution affirmatively delegated to the States the authority to impose such a burden on congressional power with respect to candidates for federal office." The Court further stated that the petitioners on behalf of Colorado were unable to identify any "tradition of state enforcement of section 3 against federal officeholders or candidates in the years following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment."
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