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Shanthi Rexaline

Trump Faces Constitutional Disqualification From 2024 Election

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump is directed to his vehicle after speaking at the Steer N' Stein bar at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on August 12, 2023. BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES

As the weight of legal evidence piles up against Donald Trump, the former president may be debarred by the Constitution to run again in the 2024 presidential election, a paper published by conservative legal scholars on Wednesday revealed.

What Happened: Under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, Trump would be disqualified to hold office again, said William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas, co-authors of the paper that was published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

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