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Two conservative legal scholars, members of the Federalist Society in good standing, have just published an audacious argument: that Donald Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for president, and that state election officials have not only the authority but the legal obligation to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot.

The legal paper, authored by University of Chicago professor William Baude and University of St. Thomas professor Michael Stokes Paulsen, centers on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — a provision that limits people from returning to public office if they have since “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or “given aid or comfort” to those who have. Baude and Paulsen argue that this clearly covers Trump’s behavior between November 2020 and January 2021.

I'm fine with no Trump on the ballot.

I don't know if this would make it more likely for a good candidate to show up there, but it'd be hard to find one that was worse. Then again....

I have stated the mechanism before, any state legislature or attorney general would have to declare Trump ineligible and then it would wind up in a court for a ruling, and then it would either go state by state or to the Supreme Court.

No legislature has been willing to pick that fight, so all what we have is two yahoos with sheepskin on the wall pontificating.