and what it will have to decide is what this language means. it's pretty obvious what it says, in fact, when it was written abraham lincoln was no longer president. we had a president who didn't believe in the 14th amendment, andrew jackson. they weren't going to rely on him and his justice department to decide who should be convicted of insurrection. that's beside the point. so it's important to see what happens in all of these 91 pending charges of crime against the former president, but whatever happens in those cases, this disqualification like the disqualification of someone who was not a natural born citizen or the disqualification of someone who doesn't meet the age limits has got to be enforced according to its terms. for a very long time americans didn't take this seriously. but now the scholars have begun to look at it and as the judge says, i've looked at it for a long time, it's impossible to