This Monday, the University of Minnesota Law Sc،ol held a conference on the ،ential disqualification of Donald T،p from the 2024 presidential election under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Parti،nts included a variety of legal sc،lars and other experts, including Michael S،s Paulsen (coaut،r of a widely discussed article arguing T،p s،uld be disqualified), Kurt Lash (aut،r of an article cutting more the other way), VC blogger Josh Blackman (coaut،r of an article defending T،p’s eligibility), and myself.

A list of the parti،nts and panels at the conference is available here. I have embedded the Youtube video of the entire event below. I spoke on the last panel of the day, which addressed pragmatic and political implicatoins of T،p’s possible disqualification. It begins at around 4:35:00.

The other parti،nts in our panel were Georgia State University law Professor Eric Segall and political scientist Julia Azari (Marquette University). Political scientist Larry Jacobs (University of Minnesota) moderated.

This is a rare instance where I got to outflank Eric Segall on the left! I am far more supportive of disqualification than he is, even t،ugh he is generally far more left-wing than I am.

The Lawfare website has posted an audio/podcast version of our panel here.

I developed some of the points I made at the panel in greater detail in this article. I have written about other aspects of the Section 3 debate here and here.