"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 United States Constitution
Amendment 14, Section 3
Hanoi John is a TRAITOR!!!
FReegards...MUD
"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 United States Constitution Amendment 14, Section 3
"Hanoi John is a TRAITOR!!!"
"FReegards...MUD"
Then why is John Kerry even a senator?
John Kerry's presence in the SENATE (let alone the Presidency) at the same time as his presence (without his objection) in the Hanoi Museum's Hall of Fame (because of his aid and comfort to the enemy) is unconstitutional. A strict reading (actually the only possible interpretation) of the section cited would lead you to conclude that he should have been barred from the Senate by the rest of the Senators when he showed up for his first day of work, regardless of the will of the voters.
Interesting sidebar: without direct election of Senators, this could have been easily done without the hue and cry about subverting "the will of the people."
Interest sidebar II: Why wouldn't an effort to expel him from the Senate once he's defeated for President be successful?