Posted on 01/13/2021 9:16:02 AM PST by Onthebrink
I have tried to distinguish two issues: whether President Trump committed impeachable conduct (he did), and whether that conduct is accurately described in the article of impeachment Democrats will propose today (the description is problematic). Relevant to that latter point, as I’ve previously detailed, is the title of the article: “Incitement to Insurrection.”
My point here is not to rehash the problems I’ve already outlined. It is, rather, to look at the issue through the prism of my colleague Dan McLaughlin’s characteristically incisive and comprehensive essay on the insurrection-based disqualification from public office in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
As Dan details, top Democrats and influential progressive legal scholars contend that President Trump, and perhaps other Republicans and Trump supporters who can be tied to the events that led to the siege on the Capitol last Wednesday, could be disqualified from holding public office under Section 3. The ban is triggered if a person is found to “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against [the United States], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Commiecrats have been committing “insurrection” since 2016 and arguably before that. It’s time to call it quits.
What a marroon
Don’t count on Trump anymore. Count on your prepping and planning because the fecal material is about to hit the rotary nlades. The evil that has taken over America was not restrained when the time to do so was happening.
Many on The left have serious mental problems. If you loo,look, them cross-eyed, they will accuse you of insurrection.
So it will be Civil War. Will it begin in Washington?
Ditto -
These people are such morons that it's painful to read the sh!t they write.
The Constitution was shredded by BOTH parties on January 20, 2009 when ALL of our elected and appointed swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
Andrew McCarthy realizing that he is in for it and trying to save face. NOPE!
Why are you publishing anything from Andrew McCarthy? You work for DU?
Stopped reading there.
Where is kamala? She loves to be in front of a camera.
Show me the words where Pres. Trump incited insurrection. SHOW ME ... anyone?
If Andrew McCarthy were judged by his own words, he’d be executed for them.
William F. Buckley is rolling over in his grave.
How does one engage in insurrection without weapons? Unless you call water bottles, purses and backpacks weapons. Even those who should be prosecuted that showed up with protective gear on had no reasonable expectation of the possibility of “regime change”.
More nonsense logic from Andrew McCarthy; he wants to have it both ways.
He awoke in the morning. And he was still Trump.
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