Posted on 03/04/2024 11:57:20 AM PST by libh8er
Top Democrat Jamie Raskin said he is working with fellow liberals in Congress to revive legislation that would disqualify Donald Trump from running for office in light of the new Supreme Court ruling.
The high court on Monday ruled 9-0 that only Congress, not Colorado, can ban Trump from the ballot and the former president must be reinstated on the Centennial State's primary ballots.
Raskin, D-Md., who chairs the Oversight Committee, said he was collaborating with colleagues like Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to 'revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th amendment.'
Such a bill was first introduced in 2022 by Schultz and would create a pathway for the Department of Justice to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
'The House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it,' Raskin told CNN shortly after the ruling. 'So, the House has already pronounced upon that.'
Meanwhile Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden told DailyMail.com in a statement: 'The Supreme Court got it right.'
'I believe Donald Trump incited the violence that took place on January 6, and my vote to impeach him for it reflects that belief. But the House impeachment vote alone is not enough to preclude him from the ballot,' he said.
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These people just don’t know when to quit.
Yeah, good luck getting that passed in two bodies before November.
What violence?
Double jeopardy, by the moron Raskin’s own admission...
By the time they get done with their chinanigans he will be at 90%.
“But the House impeachment vote alone is not enough to preclude him from the ballot”
Yeah especially since the Senate acquitted him.
‘We all know that Congress is a nearly non-functioning body,’ Griswold said on MSNBC of the ruling’s provision deeming Congress the right authority to bar Trump from running. ‘It will be up to the American voters to save our democracy.’
What a scary idea, having to rely on the voters to save democracy.
The REAL insurrection against The Free Constitutional Republican Government of the United States of America.
Did someone commit "insurrection"? I don't seem to recall anyone even being charged with "insurrection". What am I missing here?/s
Huh ?
They have the votes in the House, and McConnell could well be the deciding cloture vote in the Senate.
These creeps are proposing to consider a “Bill of Attainder”.
The Democrats get to choose who runs against them.
“These people just don’t know when to quit.”
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And Republicans just don’t know when to fight.
They can't.
They know their way of life end with a second Trump term.
It's not what you believe. It's what you can prove. And there is simply no proof that coincides with your beliefs.
Dems gonna pick off a few Republicans in support this time, or are they gonna passively watch and wet their pants again?
They are floor-kicking, petulant, breath-holding, screeching little tantrum brats at this point.
+1
That’s exactly what they really want.
“They have the votes in the House, and McConnell could well be the deciding cloture vote in the Senate.”
They’d have to get a discharge petition through the House, not likely. I don’t see it getting through the Senate either.
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