Judge Wallace has laid out nine topics to be addressed at the trial, which is scheduled to last all week.
These questions have been debated since the Jan. 6 attack, especially since Mr. Trump announced that he was running for president again, but there is little precedent to help answer them.
The 14th Amendment was ratified shortly after the Civil War, and the disqualification clause was originally applied to people who had fought for the Confederacy.
The courts have rarely had occasion to assess its modern application, and never in a case of this magnitude.
But that view is far from universal among legal scholars, and several have told The New York Times over the past few months that the questions are complicated.
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Confederacy, New York Times