Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the 2023 Turning Point Action Conference at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Donald Trump holds a 47-point lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. As the probability of his primary victory sinks in, legal scholars who see the former president as unfit for office have put forth another way to block a second term: disqualification.
Kimberly Wehle is one of those constitutional scholars. She says Trump’s actions after the 2020 election ban him from holding future office under a clause of the 14th Amendment.
Wehle first wrote about this issue back in January 2022 for Politico Magazine. The legal theory has now caught on with liberal groups, who have filed legal challenges in Colorado and Minnesota, and sent letters to election officials in several other states.
Wehle joins Diane on the podcast to talk about what the 14th Amendment actually says, whether it could apply to Donald Trump, and what the consequences of blocking the former president might be for the country.
Guests
- Kimberly Wehle Professor of law, University of Baltimore School of Law
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