Jamie Raskin Set To ‘Revive Legislation’ That Would Bar Trump From Holding Office Under 14th Amendment

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) argued that the U.S. Supreme Court passed the buck Monday by ruling that it’s up to Congress to enforce the 14th Amendment that would ban Donald Trump from ever holding office again.

Raskin told CNN’s Dana Bash that House Democrats plan to do just that, and he’s leading the effort to bring the 14th Amendment argument to the House floor.

Bash played a video of Raskin explaining last summer why Trump should be disqualified:

We’ve been saying all along that section three of the 14th Amendment presents a clear and unequivocal statement that anyone who has sworn an oath of office — and, by the way, not just a president but members of Congress and others who hold federal office — who engage in insurrection or rebellion, having sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic can never serve again in federal or state office…Donald Trump is disqualified.

Bash asked, “So, Congressman, now that you’ve read the Supreme Court decision, which effectively says that they don’t agree with that argument, what’s your response?”

“Well, the Court didn’t exactly disagree with it, they just said that they’re not the ones to figure it out,” Raskin said. “It’s not going to be a matter for judicial resolution under section three of the 14th Amendment, but it’s up to Congress to enforce it.” He continued:

I disagree with that interpretation just because the other parts of the 14th Amendment are self-executing. People can go to court and say that something violates equal protection even if there’s not a federal statute that allows them to do that. But in any event, the Supreme Court punted and said it’s up to Congress to act.

And so I am working with a number of my colleagues, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell, to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th Amendment.

And the House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it. So the House has already pronounced upon that, and there was also a 57 to 43 vote in the Senate. The question is whether Speaker Mike Johnson would allow us to bring this to the floor of the House.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in Trump’s favor by striking down Colorado’s attempt to keep him off the ballot in November because of his involvement in the Jan. 9 insurrection.

Watch the clip above via CNN.