[OXENinFLA]

There was a thread on this but I can't seem to find it.

AMENDMENT XIV

Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.

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.

[Cboldt]

That clause relates to Congress, and the ability to serve in Congress. It says that Congress can seat the Representative or Senator if the issue comes up.

In short, this is a non-starter. Politically, Kerry will be damaged by his presidential run. He'll be outed as loopy.

[Right Wing Professor]

I have a question for any legal types out there; who has standing under Amendment XIV to sue to prevent Kerry from assuming office under the United States? Assuming there is at least a defensible case he gave aid and comfort to the enemy, could I, as a citizen, bring suit? If not, who could?

[tillacum]

OXEN, this may be been passed by Congress, but we did have a president, as a young man, who gave aid and comfort to the enemy by planning and participating in protests against the United States, even visited and schmoozed with the enemy in the USSR and Eastern Europe while the United States was conducting military action against the Communists in VietNam. Now we have a Senator, presently running for president, who also gave aid and comfort the the Communist Vietnamese during this same period. So, now, how do we handle this? We have a democrat senate and congress who want this country to be run more like a socialist/communist nation. We have a Republican senate and congress who seem impotent and afraid to protect this country against such an onslaught of ideas and action.