SIGN THE PETITION: Ban insurrectionists from the ballot for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.


On January 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump incited hundreds of violent insurrectionists to storm the Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and other elected officials aided or gave comfort to the insurrectionists. As a result, five people died and more than 140 officers were injured in a seditious attack that shook our democracy to its core. Now, Trump has declared his candidacy for president again in 2024.

However, Trump’s incitement of the January 6th insurrection makes him ineligible for any future run for office.

Initially enacted in the wake of the Civil War, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies from public office any individual who has taken an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and then engages in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or gives aid or comfort to those who have. By inciting a violent attack on Congress in an effort to prevent the certification of his own electoral defeat, Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and violated his oath of office.

Free Speech For People and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund are partnering to urge Secretaries of State and chief election officials across the country to follow the mandate of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and bar insurrectionists from any future ballot. To learn more, visit: www.TrumpIsDisqualified.org.

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Challenges to Insurrectionists Seeking Office

CHALLENGE TO REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE’S CANDIDACY

A group of Georgia voters filed a legal challenge to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s candidacy for re-election in 2022. The challenge, filed with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, alleges that Greene is constitutionally disqualified from public office under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, on the grounds that she helped facilitate the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The voters are represented by Free Speech For People, which is serving as co-lead counsel in the matter, along with New York-based Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP. Bryan Sells, an Atlanta-based civil rights lawyer specializing in voting rights and election law, is serving as local counsel.

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CHALLENGE TO REP. MADISON CAWTHORN’S CANDIDACY

A group of North Carolina voters has filed a legal challenge to U.S. Representative Madison Cawthorn’s 2022 candidacy. The challenge, filed before the North Carolina State Board of Elections, alleges that Cawthorn is constitutionally disqualified from public office under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on reasonable suspicion that he helped facilitate the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The voters are represented by Free Speech For People, which is serving as co-lead counsel in the matter; Womble Bond Dickinson, a North Carolina law firm serving as co-lead counsel; Wallace & Nordan, a North Carolina law firm specializing in election law; and Robert F. Orr, a former Republican Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. James G. Exum, Jr., a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, serves as Of Counsel in the matter.

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CHALLENGEs TO REP. PAUL GOSAR, REP. ANDY BIGGS, AND STATE REP. MARK FINCHEM’S CANDIDACIES

Arizona voters filed legal challenges to U.S. Representative Paul Gosar, U.S. Representative Andy Biggs, and Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem’s 2022 candidacies. The challenges allege that they are constitutionally disqualified from public office under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on reasonable suspicion that they helped facilitate the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The voters are represented by Free Speech For People, which is serving as co-lead counsel, alongside the Tempe-based election law firm Barton Mendez Soto and the New York-based firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel.

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Letters to Election Officials About 2022 Candidates

Letters to Election Officials About Donald Trump

Declaration Barring Donald Trump From the Ballot

In July of 2022, Free Speech For People issued a declaration for secretaries of state across the country and called on them to sign the declaration. This declaration states that former president Donald Trump is barred from running for any future public office based on his incitement of an insurrection on January 6, 2021, following the mandate of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

Free Speech For People prepared the declaration, which carefully details why Donald Trump is constitutionally barred from appearing as a candidate on future ballots.  The declaration includes citations to case law affirming the role state election officials have in determining a candidate’s constitutional eligibility, relevant facts of the events leading up to and including the insurrection on January 6, and legal analysis of the definition of “insurrection” and “engage.”

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Myths and Reality about the 14.3 Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause

Other Legal Actions to Challenge Corruption

Free Speech For People served at the forefront of the fight to challenge the unprecedented corruption of the White House under former President Donald Trump. To learn about our other legal actions to challenge corruption, check out the Overview of Challenging Corruption page.

 

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