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Interesting YouTube video by Glenn Kirshner, former federal prosecutor. He's talking to John Bonifaz of Free Speech 4 People which has been fighting a lot of anti-democracy issues like the Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people with 1st Amendment rights. Their latest campaign is to get section 3 of the 14th Amendment enforced now by Secretaries of State. He points out that this section of the constitution has no requirement for conviction or legislative act to apply. It's really a duty of the Secretaries of State to make sure insurrectionists and their supporters do not appear on ballots, much like it's their duty to make sure 15 year old kids can't run for congress or the foreign-born can't run for President. When they took their oath of office, they swore to uphold the Constitution. There was no "except for the 14th Amendment" clause in that oath.
In an action against Congressman Madison Cawthorn, an appeals court already ruled that the 14th Amendment still stands and was not affected by an amnesty law passed after the civil war. Interesting fact: Judges and elected officials exempting insurrectionists and their supporters from disqualification, are themselves "giving aid or comfort" which disqualifies THEM from holding any office!
They have a website: freespeechforpeople.org You can join them, if you are interested. They have petitions to Secretaries of State. Also one to the governor of New York, asking her to reassign the Trump criminal case to a state prosecutor after the New York City prosecutor got bought off.