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Insurrectionists Who Think they are Upholding the Constitution are Still Insurrectionists—and Still Subject to Disqualification Under Section 3 the Fourteenth Amendment

If false beliefs about legality exempt people from Section 3 disqualification, leading Confederates would have been exempt as well.

Reason

New Article: Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3

A Response to William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen

Reason

Battle of Richmond reenactment: 161 years later, some participants still differ on cause, legacy of

The annual Battle of Richmond reenactment reveals there are still differences of opinion over the origin and legacy of the Civil War.

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Why no living people appear on US postage stamps

With the ascension of King Charles III to the British throne, some commentators have made much of the fact that the new stamp bearing his image features the king without a crown.

The Conversation

Editorial: Here’s why Gov. DeSantis is wrong. Fort Bragg needed a new name

Braxton Bragg was a slave-owning racist and failed military leader, sometimes described as the worst general of the Civil War. The question should be, why would anyone name a military base after him in the first place? Nevertheless, Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending him.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ fate is a cautionary tale for our nation’s Trump quandary

With barricades surrounding the Manhattan criminal courthouse and plainclothes officers ordered to dress in their full uniforms, it’s only human to ponder the wisdom of trying Donald Trump for a nonviolent offense related to buying a porn star’s silence.

Chicago Tribune

A US city took down its racist statues. Where do they go next?

Richmond, Virginia, removed likenesses of Confederate generals after 2020’s protests. Now they’re in a statue graveyard

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Georgia county refuses to change Confederate street names

States across South have removed monuments to pro-slavery Confederacy

The Independent UK

Gene Collier: Red state, blue state, some are large, one has Marge

A lot of Americans can steer past Presidents Day without even noticing it, even if they find it suspiciously odd that there is no mail.

Tribune News Service

We get 28 days for Black history in the US – but every month is White History Month

Conservatives are blocking a more inclusive version of history – even as our Capitol contains statues of white supremacists

The Guardian - US

Editorial: Confederate day honors traitors who fought for slavery. Texas Legislature must dump it

Odds are, Thursday’s state holiday came and went without most Texans noticing it.

Tribune News Service

Texas lawmakers want to end state holiday commemorating Confederate veterans

For the third straight legislative session, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, has filed a bill to end Confederate Heroes Day as a state holiday.

The Texas Tribune

The states that celebrate both MLK Day and confederate holidays

Two states celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee on the same day.

Axios

US midterms: all eyes are on Georgia's black vote

Voting for the midterm elections gets underway on Tuesday across the United States. In the deep south state of Georgia, with its bitter past of racial segregation, African Americans hope that for the first time ever a black woman will fill the position of governor. RFI met with grassroots groups…

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The Independent UK

After Cawthorn's loss, candidate challenge ruling reversed

Days after U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his primary race, a federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s decision that blocked an elections board from examining whether he should be disqualified

The Independent UK

Appeals court says 1872 amnesty law can’t be applied to pro-Trump insurrectionists

‘Having specifically decided to withhold amnesty from the actual Jefferson Davis, the notion that the 1872 Congress simultaneously deemed any future Davis worthy of categorical advance forgiveness seems quite a stretch’

Salon

7 misconceptions about the Civil War

No. 4. All amputations were done without anesthesia.

The Independent UK

Wisconsin GOP leader Vos to meet with election fraud backers

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he is meeting with advocates for decertifying President Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state, hours before he and the state Senate’s top Republican were to discuss the topic with county GOP leaders

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Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint

Visitors to Alabama's state Capitol often stop next door at “the First White House of the Confederacy," where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived at the start of the Civil War

Tribune News Service

Hundreds of Confederate memorials persist in Georgia, report says

ATLANTA — At a busy intersection in Druid Hills, hundreds of motorists whiz by a memorial to Confederate States President Jefferson Davis without knowing it, but it’s a reminder of how ever-present such monuments are in Georgia.

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