Posted on 01/23/2021 2:19:40 PM PST by MtnClimber
Democrats in the U.S. Senate are publicly speculating on whether or not they can utilize the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to bar former President Trump from ever holding public office again.
The 14th Amendment, passed in the wake of the Civil War, in part directs that no individual may hold any public office in the country if he or she “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S. after taking an oath of office in support of the Constitution.
Democrats in Congress have claimed that President Trump’s fiery rhetoric at a Jan. 6 rally in Washington should be deemed “incitement” of insurrection due to a mob of individuals having stormed the U.S. Capitol following that speech.
“It’s an idea that’s out there that I think people are contemplating in the accountability space,” U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine told the Hill on Friday.
“The remedies of the 14th Amendment certainly may be appropriate for someone who incites an insurrection as Donald Trump did,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, while Sen. Chris Murphy called the measure "certainly a possibility.”
Legal experts have argued that, under First Amendment jurisprudence, it’s unlikely that Trump actually “incited” the Jan. 6 rioters, given the high bar the Supreme Court has set to meet that standard.
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Only John Roberts knows the real story....
Chuckle is going to push this $hit just one inch too far! There might be a new primer in K-1 titled, “See Chuckie Run”!!!
>>Let’s go full dictatorship<<
Based on bidet and the whore Day 1, we are almost there.
criminalizing legitimate free speech protests regarding election processes as “insurrection” is the very definition of tyranny.
the very definition.
Didn’t Hillary say we shouldn’t call anyone unpatriotic they had a different political view?
“Who else besides Trump can rally all of us?”
Jesus Christ.
The odds are pretty good that they will push this to the point where he SHOULD have incited an insurrection. Under the circumstances, that protest was pretty restrained, even if the Most Holy Lectern and Gavel were desecrated.
The crap Biden has done in the past three days is a million times more “insurrection” than everything Trump did in four years.
These kooks are grasping at straws. They are scared to death of him.
Since when did Democrats give a rat’s ass about the constitution?
'Rats very much fear the one man that on Wednesday got a 21-gun salute, and who flew on AF1 and/or US Military aircraft.
. I’ll see your Romney and raise you a Murkowsky
I’m all for that
They can do whatever they want. We live in a totalitarian nightmare now, and the courts and legislatures don’t want to address it. Who’s going to stop them?
They need 60 votes they won’t get 60 votes NO WAY!!!
Don’t consider. Just do it.
We are truly through the looking glass.
Have a feeling that a great many things are going to change (or be changed) soon, in a very big way that will NOT favor those who would try such bullshit.
Democrats (i.e., fscists, communists, anarchists and fellow travellers) are scared of Trump. They dodged a bullet because of fake ballots. That won’t happen next time. Even if Trump does not run his protegee will. WAWA (no, not West Africa Wins Again, but We’re At War, America).
Better file that against Smuckie when he
publically threatened Supreme Court justices
Thanks, Dio. I did not know that. Very interesting.
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