" #Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify #Trump for Role on Jan. 6 - Two law professors active in the #Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.
Two prominent conservative law professors have concluded that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to be president under a provision of the Constitution that bars people who have engaged in an insurrection from holding government office. The professors are active members of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, and proponents of originalism, the method of interpretation that seeks to determine the Constitution’s original meaning. The professors — William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas — studied the question for more than a year and detailed their findings in a long article to be published next year in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
#NYT #NewYorkTimes article, link without paywall - https://archive.ph/zk9SL
#US #USPolitics #USElections #2024Election #FederalistSociety #Conservatives #Republicans
This is one of those many, many examples showing that the Federalist Society is not, as is so often reported, particularly conservative, and it regularly puts out content that is strongly anti-conservative.
I've been listening to a lot of their content over the years, and it's always striking to me how that reputation against them has become so common in liberal circles.
It just doesn't square with my own experience with the organization.
