The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue.
Article 6 of the Constitution says, with my emphasis on a pertinent part:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be Required as a Qualification To any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Maybe I’m wrong here, but I’d think that the President is “an executive Officer of the United States” thus bound by the oath/affirmation they took, regardless of whether the oath said “support the Constitution” verbatim, to support the Constitution per this article…
Article 6 of the Constitution says, with my emphasis on a pertinent part:
Maybe I’m wrong here, but I’d think that the President is “an executive Officer of the United States” thus bound by the oath/affirmation they took, regardless of whether the oath said “support the Constitution” verbatim, to support the Constitution per this article…