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14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
This is why Trump was taken off the ballot in Colorado. The court found that he engaged in insurrection.
Thank you! Makes sense there is something about it, but I didn't search hard enough. Should have looked closer at that court case.
Most people don't know the Constitution very well even if they've read it before (and most people haven't). So I don't blame you for not knowing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66690276
In the riot's aftermath, the US House of Representatives impeached the then-president on a charge of "incitement of insurrection".
Had the US Senate voted to convict him, it would have had the option to take a second, simple-majority vote to bar him from ever serving in office again.
But that never happened: the Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority required to convict Mr Trump, so there was no second vote.
There is nothing in the 14th amendment that says that the Senate has to convict him to bar him from office. Or that any state does not have the right to control its own ballot.