lost cause, the trumpian lost cause could win the presidency again and come back into power, unless we use the terror of our laws to prevent it. joining us once again is david blight, professor of american history and african american studies at yale university. processor bright, thank you very much for coming back. i can t tell you how agonizing it is for me to go to a commercial in situations like that and i just want to give you more time to expand on your point. with the departure point being what we found and on trump s new legal filing in maine, or one of the points where his maine lawyer makes is, the 14th amendment bars someone who engaged in insurrection or gave aid and comfort to insurrectionists, from holding office.
here, and first of all i have to say, as a historian reconstruction, there are a lot of those who study this, and i am by no means the only so-called expert. but it s like section three is risen from the dead. it was just gone. nobody ever cared about. nobody ever read it. not every time i turn on the news i read the paper. i m seeing the full text of it. thank god for this constitutional education. but again, that came out of first what was known as the joint committee on reconstruction, a group of 15 members of congress brought together in the winter of 1866 to assess, okay, what has this civil where rot, and what should we do about reconstruction? and that led to the debates of how to fashion an amendment in various parts that would begin to put the union back together and define just who these freed
to the united states supreme court to get his name on the presidential ballot in maine colorado, which would leave supreme court justices, once again, playing amateur historians, this time about the 14th amendment, for the guidance of unprofessional story in the supreme court should consult the work of our next guest, yale history professor david blight, an expert on the 14th amendment. professor blight joins us next. professor blight joins us net professor blight joins us net an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement.
professor david blight, we are up against the dreaded commercial again. thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you for giving us our reading assignments about 1866. we will do it before our next class reconvenes here. thank you very much, professor. thank you, lawrence. coming up, the breaking corruption news of the night is that new jersey senator robert menendez is facing another superseding indictment, this time for bribery involving the government of qatar, after already being accused of bribery involving the government of a chipped. that s next. that s next. i m feeling better. cough? congestion? all in one and done with new mucinex kickstart. aaaaah! ah! hated that. headache? better. ah! fever? body pain? better now. aaaaah!
on this program are just getting warmed up when we have to go to a commercial. such are the perils of commercial television of course. that happened thursday night we ll historian david blight was explaining to us the history of the 14th amendment and how it has become the legal basis for banning donald trump from the presidential ballot in some states. the text is clear here. make no mistake. there are many constitutional lawyers have argued this. it s the politics that of course is not clear. and we could end up, and i ve read the decision by the secretary of state in maine, on at least two of the lawsuits, the third one didn t make much sense, she is dead light dead right on the text of the law. and another thing people should