The North Carolina attorney general’s office said the 14th Amendment could be used to bar Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection. The 14th Amendment bans insurrectionists from holding federal office. It was a provision adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War in an effort to block confederates from running for office and trying to overthrow the government. The amendment reads, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office … who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … shall h…
