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Why are U.S. courts afraid of the 14th Amendment? Because it's radical. By Sherrilyn Ifill

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Consider the recent ruling upholding former president Donald Trump’s appearance on Colorado’s 2024 presidential ballot. Here we have the latest entry in a dismaying 155-year tradition of American judges stripping that radical amendment to the U.S. Constitution of its intended power.

Section 3, of the 14th amendment bars any participant in a rebellion against the government of the United States from holding public office. But almost from its inception, all the amendment’s radical provisions have inspired fear and timidity in jurists of every stripe.

Yes,“radical.” The 14th Amendment was conceived of and pushed by the “Radical Republicans” in Congress after the Civil War, so named because of their commitment to eradicating slavery and they'd seen the threat that white supremacist ideology and the spirit of insurrection posed to the survival of the USA as a republic.

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