No. 23-719 - In the Supreme Court of the United States

The President is not an “officer of the United States” because that phrase never includes the President in the Constitution............................................ [...] They designed the Reconstruction Amend- ments to weaken the ability of state governments to disrupt the mechanisms of the national government. [...] The Colorado Supreme Court became the first to remove a candidate for president from the bal- lot based on a historically implausible reimagining of the Fourteenth Amendment. [...] Recently, Maine’s Sec- retary of State followed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision and ruled that President Trump “is not qualified to hold the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment” and cannot be on the primary ballot. [...] Section Three was enacted when the Reconstruction Congress fought to “enlarge[] the pow- ers of the nation, [and] abridge[] those of the States.” Paschal, The Constitution of the United States De- fined and Carefully Annotated xxiv (1868).