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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/16/2021
  

  Congress Must Invoke the 14th Amendment to Stop Trump from Running Again

  by Tom Coleman and John C. Danforth

  A former Congressman and former Senator, both Republicans from Missouri, demand that Congress invoke the 14th Amendment's provisions on insurrection to bar Donald Trump from holding office in the future. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/28/2021
  

  Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?

  Carlton F.W. Larson has studied the legal history of treason. Until January 6, he argued that critics of Donald Trump were off base in leveling that charge. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2021
  

  Impeachment May Not Work. Here’s the Next Best Way to Dump Trump

  by Eric Foner

  The 14th Amendment empowers Congress to bar persons involved in insurrection against the United States from holding office. This can't remove Trump, but it can stop him (and anyone found to have plotted the Capitol rioting) from returning to office. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/7/2021
  

  What Pro-Trump Insurrectionists Share — and Don’t — With the American Revolution

  by Jordan E. Taylor

  Wednesday's Capitol rioters believe they carry on the legacy of the revolution, but it's not in the way they think. The Declaration of Independence reflects the prevalence of conspiracy theories and fake news among the colonial rebels. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/1/2020
  

  The Double Standard of the American Riot

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Many people are asking if violence is a valid means of producing social change. The hard and historical answer is yes. Riots have a way of magnifying not merely the flaws in the system, but also the strength of those in power.