Section 2 alsopunishes states that deny full citizens their voting rights.(Black men’s right to vote was protected under the 15th Amendment, and women were granted the right to vote under the 19th Amendment. The voting age gets lowered from 21 to 18 in the 26th Amendment.) The 14th Amend...
“I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection,” Bellows wrote in her decision. Beyond ar...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3501138The purpose of this paper is to consider the meaning of the 14th Amendment as it applies to women in the United States through the perspective of women's rightsSocial Science Electronic Publishing
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment. ...
In a landmark decision on Dec. 19, the Colorado Supreme Court found that Trump is disqualified from holding public office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The divided 4-3 court ruled against Trump on all of the key legal issues it weighed, including that Section 3 covers the ...