Will Donald Trump Be Disqualified from Running Under the 14th Amendment?

The case that Donald Trump is ineligible to run for president in 2024 due to the 14th Amendment is "compelling," but "unlikely to gain broad acceptance," according to a former federal prosecutor.

Earlier this month, two prominent legal scholars wrote a 126-page report arguing Trump is "disqualified" from running for the White House again under section three of the 14th Amendment, due to his "participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election."

Trump has a commanding lead in his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination, with a recent poll finding 60.8 percent of likely GOP primary voters want him to be the party's candidate. Thus any move to disqualify the former president could have a seismic impact, and would almost certainly be fiercely contested in the courts. Trump has already been charged in two cases over claims he broke the law in an alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, one focused on Georgia and the other nationwide. He denies any wrongdoing and has pled not guilty to all counts.