What a lot of bunk. It is easily established whether a person is 35 years or older or not, or if a president has served two full terms. Unfortunately that natural born citizen part has been allowed to go out into the fog. Trump hasn’t been indicted much less convicted of insurrection. Has anyone? If he is ever convicted, then we can talk.
Does anyone know how this was applied to former Confederate officials? I know that James Longstreet, among others, was indicted for treason. Gen. Grant objected to this, saying they were exempt from such prosecution by the terms of surrender. He convinced Andrew Johnson to get the Justice Department to drop the charges. Now, here we had an actual insurrection, and Longstreet was an important part of it, and yet he sought high federal positions, such as Secretary of the Navy and U.S. Marshal, and was actually appointed as Marshal for Georgia and Minister to the Ottoman Empire.
Does anyone know how this was applied to former Confederate officials?
It absolutely applied to former Confederate officials. Constitutional historians will tell us the intent of the 14th was to punish and prohibit former Confederates from holding national office.
To even apply this Amendment to President Trump is a miscarriage of common sense.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit11_1.pdf
Southern Opposition and Military OccupationSoutherners thought the 14th Amendment had been passed to punish them for starting the Civil War, and they refused to ratify it. Indeed there were sections which prevented ex-Confederates from voting, holding office, or being paid back for lending money to the Confederacy.
Chapter 1 The 14th Amendment and the Jim Crow Laws