5 things to know about the 14th Amendment effort to block Trump from the presidency

NPR quoted James Gardner in a story about the 14th Amendment, a little-known provision of the U.S. Constitution that is at the center of a growing debate about former President Donald Trump's eligibility for the 2024 election, with a number of Trump opponents claiming it should prevent him from appearing on ballots next year. The 14th amendment, ratified after the Civil War, disqualifies anyone from the office who engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” in the U.S. “Until recently, nobody would have said that there was even a real chance of a sort of a rebellion or insurrection against the United States of the kinds the amendment would deal with,” Gardner says. “Now is certainly the most important context to which the provision is relevant since the 1870s.”