What Colorado's Supreme Court refuses to understand about Trump and the 14th Amendment

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a decision to block former President Trump from the ballot in the 2024 election.

John Yoo, co-author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court, is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Article II of the Constitution lists only three qualifications for the presidency.  A president must be "a natural born Citizen," he or she must be at least 35 years old, and he or she must have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.  After the Civil War, Congress proposed, and three-quarters of the states, ratified Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to exclude those who had participated in the rebellion from federal office.  It is important to read the text of that provision carefully: 

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.