| Donald Trump might already be ineligible to serve as president of the United States in the future. That's true even without an impeachment process that ends with a formal ban from future public office. The relevant constitutional provision is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted in the aftermath of the Civil War and mentioned in the article of impeachment proposed before the House this week. The provision bars a person from holding any office "under the United States" if the person has sworn an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the government or "given aid to the enemies" of the U.S. Does this provision to apply to Trump? The first part certainly does: Trump took an oath to uphold the Constitution when he became president. Read the whole thing. mRNA Vaccines Could Vanquish Covid Today, Cancer Tomorrow — Andreas Kluth World Shouldn't Laugh at U.S. Too Soon — Mihir Sharma Bond Market's Scariest Gauge Is Worse Than Ever — Brian Chappatta America Will Achieve Herd Immunity to Trumpism. I Hope. — Niall Ferguson Call the Senate Vote on Trump's Removal and Be Done With It — Michael R. Bloomberg It's Trump's Money, Not His Brand, That Should Worry Him — Timothy L. O'Brien Can Twitter Survive Banning Donald Trump? — Tae Kim A Dead Soviet Economist Has Bad News for Stocks — John Authers Rising Treasury Yields Flash a Warning Sign — Mohamed A. El-Erian This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership. | 
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