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Dealing with the 14th Amendment Hoax

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  The Dems and RINOs like the Unknown Candidate are spewing a lot of guff about using the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to disqualify Trump from running for office ever again. Alan Dershowitz, hardly a right-winger , has been both eloquent and irate about this grotesque resurrection of a time-locked section of the amendment for a cheap political maneuver. His argument is both historical and legal. The history is that in the Post-Civil War South, the defeated Confederates were still engaged in political and criminal acts of rebellion against federal authority, including means as low as lynchings and other forms of Klan terrorism. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was written expressly to put an end to this bloody hemorrhage in the body politic. This history is actually demonstrated by the omission in the legal language that makes it inapplicable to anything but the immediate Post-Civil War era; Section 3 does not designate any specific person or position as responsible for investiga