Madison Cawthorn's second loss this week has far-reaching implications for the country.
That a person looking to become a federal representative might have tried to incite an insurrection against our country should be considered disqualifying by voters.
In 1868, in the wake of the Civil War, the United States added the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution. Most famous for including the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, aobviously aimed at preventing members of the Confederacy from holding certain public offices, it provides that some public officials who “...engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against our country or who gave “aid and comfort to the enemies” of our country were disqualified from holding certain offices.
Cawthorn argued, illogically, that the 1872 law lifted the eligibility bar for any person who, anytime in the future, might engage in an insurrection or rebellion and then run for public office. It’s an argument that claims the the Amnesty Act of 1872 repealed the disqualification clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and, unfortunately, in March.
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