Posted on 11/16/2022 8:11:47 AM PST by lizma2
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) is pursuing legislation that would ban Donald Trump from ever holding federal office again in connection to his role in the violent events that transpired at the Capitol last year, putting many people’s lives and the continuance of democracy at risk.
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Isn’t that what the Jan 6th Committee is supposed to be all about?
The one where Thompson and Raskin have already said, more than likely won’t go near Pres Trump?
Any word on Pres Trump testifying? Last I heard he said he would as long as it’s in open forum with all the media there. True?
Them giving him an open mic would be disastrous for them. Especially knowing that they FBI had snitches and UCs in the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Toss in him offering to activate the National Guard, being denied, Capitol PD asking for help, being denied and ALL that unseen CCTV footage. He’s smarter than that entire panel of hacks by a million miles. It would be a YUGE mistake for them and I think they know it.
Lol
These clowns just can’t help themselves.
“This is a Fool’s Errand with Cicilline playing the fool.”
“Democrats might actually be expanding their majority, depending on how next month’s runoff election in Georgia turns out.”
This man is stupid. Georgia will have the same two democrat senators until January, no matter how the vote goes on December 6.
Unconstitutional. This craziness will only draw people closer to Trump.
Correct response: “This action would destroy democracy.”
That’s all you need to say, no explanation necessary. It’s what they do and it seems to be working.
True, Trump was never indicted or convicted of “insurrection,” but the 14th amendment is vague on that point—it is obviously intended to exclude men who had supported the Confederacy but doesn’t specify that such people have to be convicted in a court of law.
Trump meets the Constitutional requirements for President. The only way to add additional requirements, or prohibit him from taking office:
1) Impeachment and conviction in the Senate - this failed twice
2) Amend the Constitution.
This bill is also a bill of attainder, which is prohibited by the Constitution.
Let’s also note the hypocrisy. Democrats constantly whine about the threat to Democracy and attempts by Trump and Republicans to interfere with our sacred democracy. Central to “democracy” is the people freely choosing their elected representatives. What this bill proposes to do is limit the ability of people to choose, so it is a blatant attack on democracy.
Trump's the only person who can break up the toxic deep state and return government to 'profession' not 'master'...
“If he can’t win, why go to the effort of doing this?“
Because it will ban Trump from holding any office. They don’t want trump to have any power, anytime, anywhere.
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I’m pretty sure no one who votes Commierat stayed awake through 7th Grade Civics. Do they even teach that in the schools, or are they too busy teaching children to be Marxist catamites for pervert adults, and that Whitey is BAAAAAD?
Everything Donald Trump said in his speech last night was true and in the face of these communist that are called Democrats. They are scared to death of this man. I love him and we may never in our life time see a man that cares more about America and its people .
And, anyone who believes this BS deserves the tyranny in place.
The only way someone can be banned from the Pres office is having been convicted of insurrection. This is not a “believe all women moment”, it requires conviction.
It is but why doesn’t someone like MTG file a similar bill to bar Biden from running based on his illegal deals outlined in the Hunter Biden laptop
A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted person’s civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself.
They don’t need a bill passed in Congress, they need a conviction for sedition in a court of law.
The D’s and GOPe, “Trump is toxic, give up on him, his time has past, he can’t win, the mid-term elections prove it, blah, blah”.
Announcement: Trump is officially running for POTUS again.
The D’s and GOPe, “We must stop him from being able to run! Invoke the 14th Amendment!!! We cannot ALLOW this!!”.
Nothing says they’re terrified more than this pathetic narrative.
When Christ went into the Synagogue where trade was ongoing and turned the tables over declaring they’d “taken a place of worship and turned it into a den of thieves” he alienated the Jewish establishment. He also threatened the political authority of the Romans. They decided to crucify him for it. Together they were “The Establishment”. The stories still told 2000 years later, obviously it was epic and historical.
Then Trump came to Washington D.C. ...and if they could, they would crucify him for exactly the same reasons. Same story, just a different means to an end.
You’re referring to that silly old document that badly needs to be updated, right? The one full of offensive pronouns, sexist racist xenophobic language and that is not LGBQTXYZ friendly?
This clown is stretching the 14th Amendment a bit far.
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