Just three days after the Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction that blocked federal agents from cutting the razor wire installed at the border by the Texas National Guard, former president Donald Trump urged "all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the border." The following day, Trump's exhortation was answered by the governors of Oklahoma, Idaho, and Florida. It's a scenario one Trump- aligned congressman had already described as a civil war before Trump's clarion call. This recent crisis is something the justices should keep in mind as they consider whether Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment--which prohibits certain people from holding "any office, civil or military" if they "have engaged in insurrection or rebellion"--bars Trump from office.
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