Trump's legal battles are piling up: in Washington, Georgia, New York — the list goes on. But even if all of those cases somehow work out in his favor, advocates say a new legal challenge could still sideline him.
Separate from the criminal cases, over the past few weeks a growing body of conservative scholars have raised the constitutional argument that Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election make him ineligible to hold federal office ever again.
Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, says that a public official is not eligible to assume public office if they "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the United States, or had "given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.