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Impeachment manager pushing bill to bar Trump from office

One of the House Democrats’ impeachment managers really doesn’t want to go through another Trump administration.

Rep. David Cicilline, Rhode Island Democrat, has sent a letter to his Democratic colleagues asking for co-sponsors on a bill that would bar former President Donald Trump from ever holding federal office “for leading an insurrection against the United States.”

Mr. Cicilline said Section 3 of the 14th Amendment means Mr. Trump has “forfeited his right to ever hold federal office again.” The provision was intended to keep rebel Confederate officials from holding U.S. government posts after the end of the Civil War.