Weaponizing the Fourteenth Amendment

September 14, 2023

by Harry G. Hutchison American Thinker

By now, it is clear that the concerted effort to paint Donald Trump as a criminal has backfired. After four indictments, including the most recent 13-count indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, Pres. Trump holds a commanding lead among prospective Republican primary voters in Iowa and elsewhere. Evidence indicates that Trump’s criminal indictments strengthen, rather than shrink, his poll numbers. Enraged by Trump’s rising popularity, his political opponents are now looking to keep his name off the ballot entirely. Already, this effort has gained momentum in Michigan, New Hampshire, and Arizona. These states, egged on by elite law professors, have turned the 14th Amendment, which was previously used to prevent ex-Confederates from seeking office after the Civil War, into an improvised legal weapon designed to bar the former president from reclaiming office after his actions in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election.