Democrat plans go sideways

 Here is a local issue that may have national implications.  The Democrats have attempted to keep Republican Madison Cawthorn off the ballot for Representative of North Carolina's 11th Congressional district based on a Constitutional Amendment passed after the Civil War that said anyone involved in a rebellion against the United States was disbarred from running for office.  As Andrea Widburg explains in her post at the American Thinker entitled Madison Cawthorn achieved a huge victory in an N.C. federal court, it turns out that Congress repealed that provision in 1872.

The problem for this argument about the Disqualification Clause is that the clause, which applied to past and future insurrections and which was enacted three years after Civil War ended, explicitly allowed Congress to repeal it via “a vote of two-thirds of each House.” That vote came in 1872 when Congress passed the Amnesty Act, described as “An Act to remove political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Article of the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.”

Of course, you realize that the Dems may have had the idea of using this clause to disqualify Republicans when they made the claim that the January 6 protest was in fact an "insurrection." It warms the cockles of my heart when those plans go sideways.