Three former Attorneys Normal, Edwin Meese III, Michael B. Mukasey, and William P. Barr, along with me and B.U. regulation professor Gary Lawson, and with Residents United, joined an amicus temporary that was filed yesterday on Donald Trump’s facet in Trump v. Anderson. That is the case which the Supreme Court docket is listening to on whether or not former President Donald J. Trump is disqualified from being re-elected as President by Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification. The temporary was written and filed by Gene C. Schaerr and Kenneth A. Klukowski (of Schaerr, Jaffe LLP) working with a primary draft written by me.
The temporary argues that, no matter one thinks concerning the occasions that occurred on January 6, 2021, Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification doesn’t apply to the workplace of President of the USA. The temporary additionally argues that Part 3 is just not self-executing and requires congressional laws to take impact. Lastly, the temporary argues that upholding the ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court docket would result in chaos as a number of candidates for workplace can be excluded from working for workplace by judges and state election officers.
The three Attorneys Normal, on behalf of whom the amicus temporary was filed, served underneath 4 completely different Republican Presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald J. Trump. It is a hanging degree of consensus amongst Attorneys Normal for Republican Presidents, who served sooner or later between 1985 to 2020, in favor of overturning the Colorado Supreme Court docket resolution barring Donald Trump from being on the poll within the present presidential election underneath Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification.