Former Labor Secretary Reich says election officials should refuse to put Trump on 2024 ballot over ‘treason’

Former Democratic Labor Secretary Robert Reich referred to as for secretaries of state to refuse to put former President Trump’s identify on the poll in 2024, accusing the previous president of “treason.” 

“The obvious query in American politics at the moment must be: why is the man who dedicated treason simply over two years in the past allowed to run for president?” Reich wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian revealed Monday. “Reply: he shouldn’t be.”

Reich, who served as labor secretary beneath former President Clinton, argued that Trump is responsible of treason and violated the Structure by way of his actions difficult the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election. Reich accused Trump of collaborating in an “riot in opposition to the US” — referring to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — and wrote the 14th Modification to the Structure prohibits “anybody who has held public workplace and who has engaged in riot in opposition to the US from ever once more serving in public workplace.” 

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Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich testifies earlier than the Joint Financial Committee, Jan. 16, 2014, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Photos)

“Secretaries of state – who generally are in command of deciding who will get on the poll – should refuse to put Donald Trump’s identify on the 2024 poll, primarily based on the clear which means of part three of the 14th Modification to the U.S. Structure,” Reich urged. 

His argument is much like one made by Home Democrats, who launched laws final yr that sought to bar Trump from workplace beneath the 14th Modification. 

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The modification states, “No particular person shall … maintain any workplace, civil or army, beneath the US … who, having beforehand taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the US … to assist the Structure of the US, shall have engaged in riot or insurrection in opposition to the identical, or given help or consolation to the enemies thereof.” 

Democrats argue that this language – adopted within the 1860s to forestall former Confederates from occupying positions within the federal authorities after the Civil Struggle – must be utilized to Trump, who they allege incited an riot in opposition to the US on Jan. 6, 2021. 

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“Can any of us who noticed (or have realized by way of the painstaking work of the January 6 committee) what Trump tried to do to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election have any doubt he’ll as soon as once more attempt to do no matter essential to regain energy, even when unlawful and unconstitutional?” Reich requested. 

He floated a number of conspiratorial eventualities through which Trump-loyalist secretaries of state and governors “alter the election equipment” to assist Trump win, or who object to slates of electors pledged to BIden within the occasion the president wins re-election subsequent yr. 

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“Does anybody doubt the chance – no, the chance – of all or any of this occurring?” wrote Reich.

“Trump tried these ways as soon as. The chance of him making an attempt once more is larger now as a result of his loyalists at the moment are in a lot stronger positions all through state and federal authorities,” he continued.

Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung stated Reich and others calling for Trump to be stored off the poll are “un-democratic.” 

“What these un-democratic organizations and people are doing is blatant election interference and tampering. They don’t seem to be even making an attempt to cover it anymore, and it’s unhappy they need to deprive the American individuals of selecting Donald Trump — the overwhelming front-runner by far — as their President,” Cheung informed Fox Information Digital. “Historical past won’t choose them kindly, and so they should reply for his or her desecration of the Structure.”