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Does Postal Act of 1792 prove Trump was ‘officer’ of U.S.?

Donald Trump, George Washington

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall), a painting of George Washington
(AP Photo/Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Days after former Donald Trump’s Colorado GOP allies petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Centennial State decision to disqualify Trump under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause from running for president, a new scholarly paper has addressed a “far less titillating” but nonetheless important question: Is the president an “officer of the United States”?

It’s a significant question precisely because it’s one that conservative attorney Jay Sekulow has asked SCOTUS to answer — and, if Trump wasn’t an “officer” on Jan. 6, then questions under the 14th Amendment about whether he “engaged in” insurrection would be immediately imperiled. In a late December petition, Sekulow’s first question was whether the president “falls within the list of officials subject to the disqualification provision of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Under the Section 3, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States […] to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

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