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Defending Democracy - Trump Will Win at the Supreme Court | Verdict Ep. 194

Published | Video Starts at 19:11

So if you're trying to have an insurrection, would you try to do that. As well and understand, look, section three of the 14th amendment was passed in the wake of the Civil War. It was designed to stop people who had fought for the Confederacy from serving in Congress, from serving in elected office, from serving in government. If you were so understand, when they were writing insurrection, they were thinking about the civil war now. (19:11–19:21)

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Asserts that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was designed to stop Confederates from serving in government.

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