re: SCOTUS oral arguments on Trump vs Colorado

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Do you have a reference supporting this? I have not read the entire legislative history of Section 3, but I did read where some Senators asked why POTUS and VEEP had been left out, and they were assured those positions were included in "offices"

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An early draft of Section 3 expressly listed President and Vice President as offices that would be off-limits to anyone found to have engaged in an insurrection:

"No person shall be qualified or shall hold the office of President or vice president of the United States, Senator or Representative in the national congress, or any office now held under appointment from the President of the United States, and requiring the confirmation of the Senate, who has been or shall hereafter be engaged in any armed conspiracy or rebellion against the government of the United States[.]"

But the words “President or vice president” were deliberately edited out of the final version of Section 3. This, together with the disqualification of presidential electors and vice-presidential electors who have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion,” makes clear that the Framers of Section 3 did not intend for it to apply to those running for President or Vice President, even if they engaged in insurrection.

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