When Gerard Magliocca, an Indiana University law professor, submitted a draft law review article on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for publication in December 2020, few in the world of constitutional law could have anticipated just how relevant it would become a short time later. At the time, Magliocca said in testimony in Denver District Court on November 1, there was virtually no modern scholarship on the interpretation and application of Section 3, a post-Civil War provision that bars anyone who took an oath to support the U.S. Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” from holding office…