Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency

By katelyn polantz 1 Min Read
Washington CNN  — 

Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions to overturn the previous presidential election result.

The latest salvo came Saturday in The Atlantic magazine, from liberal law professor Laurence Tribe and J. Michael Luttig, the former federal appellate judge and a prominent conservative who’s become a strong critic of Trump’s actions after the election.

Not all in the legal community agree – and what the scholars are proposing would need to be tested in court.

Yet Luttig and Tribe’s writings capture a conversation about the

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