Ballot Disqualifications and the Fourteenth Amendment

In this episode of Emphasis Added, Season 5 hosts Jake Guarino and Harrison Little meet with Emily Berman, a  Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and an expert in constitutional law. In our discussion, we examine the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Trump v. Anderson concerning the removal of Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in Colorado. We discuss how this case redefines Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment in several key ways.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:33 Preview of Trump v. Anderson
• 4:50 Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment
• 7:47 State Enforcement vs. Federal Enforcement
• 16:33 Section 5's Relationship to Section 3
• 22:06 Discussion of the Concurrences
• 46:08 Conclusion