Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits former government officials from holding public office again if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.CREW noted that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has "not been tested often in the last 150 years, due to lack of insurrections. One of the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide federal protection of individual rights against the states. CREW noted that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has "not been tested often in the last 150 years, due to lack of insurrections. The voters who challenged Trump say his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol makes him ineligible under that "insurrection ban. Third, Section Three vested the authority to grant absolution in Congress rather than in the President. Bush, has used these emergency powers: in the Virgin Islands in 1989 and in Los Angeles in 1992. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed to disqualify Trump, claiming he engaged in insurrection on Jan.