_{By Arlen Grossman}

Keith Olbermann explains (in the first 21minutes) how the 14th Amendment automatically disqualifies Donald Trump from running for President. The case is strong. Here is that section of the amendment:

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.

The growing evidence has proven that President Trump led an insurrection on January 6, 2021 to stop the electoral count that would officially declare Joe Biden as the rightfully elected president, in order that Trump would claim victory and remain in office. The writers of the Fourteenth Amendment clearly would not want to allow the former president to become president again. He “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against (the Constitution).” The Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith are laying out the planning and execution of this plan, with fake electors, false claims of voter fraud, and asking Vice-President Pence to not certify the counting of the official electoral vote count.

We all saw (in real time) what happened on January 6. After a fiery speech by President Trump, several thousand attendees marched towards the U.S. Capitol, and broke through the police barricades. The mob then entered the Capitol building, with some rioters smashing through windows and doors. Some members of Congress were escorted to an underground bunker while others barricaded themselves in offices or sheltered in place in the House chamber. For about six hours, rioters looted and ransacked congressional offices.

However, their efforts to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election failed when the vice-president refused to go along with the plan to stop the electoral count. But by now, more than one thousand rioters have been arrested by the Justice Department for their roles in the riot.

Special Counsel Jack Smith recently declared:”this evidence shows that the rioters’ disruption of the certification proceeding is exactly what the defendant intended on January 6.” Prosecutors intend to introduce evidence that will speak to Trump’s “motive, intent, preparation, knowledge … and common plan,”

From CNN Politics:

“Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result. 

“The latest salvo came Saturday in The Atlantic magazine, from liberal law professor Laurence Tribe and J. Michael Luttig, the former federal appellate judge and prominent conservative, who argue the 14th Amendment disqualifies the former president from returning to the Oval Office. 

“The people who wrote the 14th Amendment were not fools. They realized that if those people who tried to overturn the country, who tried to get rid of our peaceful transitions of power are again put in power, that would be the end of the nation, the end of democracy,” Tribe told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on “State of the Union” on Sunday.

Luttig, who’s become a strong critic of Trump’s actions after the election, called for officials to look carefully at his qualifications for being on the ballot.

“All officials, federal and state, who have a responsibility to put on the ballot candidates for the presidency of the United States are obligated under the Constitution to determine whether Donald Trump qualifies to be put on the ballot,” Luttig said.”

According to the 14th Amendment, “Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” So Trump would have a way to re-qualify to run for office, but with a ⅔ vote from the House and Senate, his odds of success would be virtually impossible. And that is how it should be.