Posted on 02/12/2021 8:00:18 AM PST by rustyweiss74
Congressional Democrats are reportedly considering a back-up plan – a censure resolution against Donald Trump should this week’s impeachment trial result in acquittal for the former President.
The resolution, according to McClatchy, would bar Trump “from holding future office over his role in the U.S. Capitol riot.”
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The Democrat attempt to censure Donald Trump – who is now a private citizen – would invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
It is a rarely cited Civil War-era provision that bars people from holding office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
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Well, if they are going with this based on working of “engaged in a rebellion”, then that could bite them down the road, since so many of them have “engaged in a rebellion” or two.
Wouldn’t that eliminate every Democrat who supported the burning of cities?
Every single congressrat who proudly gets themselves arrested at various protests is automatically guilty and is to be removed from office.
It’s still a bill of attainder: only a court, not the Congress, can make such a determination.
then that could bite them down the road
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It won’t. The Dems never get bit by anything. They dominate the government, they own the media, they own the courts, and the Repukes are afraid of them.
When the Left is as scared of you as they are of Trump, you KNOW you must be doing something right.
Yeah - no
Democrats don’t have evidence to throw Section 3 of the 14th Amendment at Trump any more than they have evidence to support their 2nd mock impeachment of Trump imo.
“Well, if they are going with this based on working of “engaged in a rebellion”, then that could bite them down the road, since so many of them have “engaged in a rebellion” or two.”
Didn’t the First Hoe incite violence ? How can she continue as VP ? How about their members of Congress ? They should all step down immediately.
Doubtful as Article 14,3 only states that an official may be REINSTATED with a 2/3rds vote after being found to have “engaged in insurrection.”
There is no law to find that the person “engaged in insurrection” other than impeachment, which is where they’re already failing.
this is wholly unconstitutional so they can FO.
I don’t think Congress has the power to do this. The state legislatures regulate election law and can be challenged in court.
The 14th assumes a conviction of insurrection or rebellion, or a repatriation as in the civil war.
This senate trial will be evidence of no insurrection since the president will not be convicted.
Charges that have yet to be established or proven.
Engaged in what rebellion? Incited what treasonous activity?
These people do not grasp at straws when under water, they grasp at bubbles on the surface.
It would not bar him from RUNNING for president, it would bar him from taking the oath of office should he be elected.
1. If Trump ran, the court would not hear the case, because he had not been elected yet.
2. If he was elected, no court would dare hear the case. They’d find some excuse about standing so they wouldn’t have to hear it.
Of course, the above would be true if censure carried any constitutional weight at all. It doesn’t.
How can this be constitutional? where in the constitution does it say senators can bar anyone from running for office? Remember this is a fake impeachment which can only be applied to a sitting president.
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