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Originally Posted by GChief
If he had been charged it may stick. But without charges or a conviction he did not insurrect  |
He was impeached so that covers charges. Also the way that it is written in the 14th amendment leaves out convicted IIRC. At the time it was passed they had just went through dealing with insurrection and saw the need to suspend this need be a good guess.
Not a lawyer and will defer to a more learned one.