Posted on 12/20/2020 7:13:50 AM PST by MtnClimber
It was inevitable that the Democrats would overreact to legal challenges by President Trump and other Republicans to corrupt election practices in swing states, but some responses have been unhinged even by their standards. One recurring refrain is particularly disturbing — that lawyers, members of Congress, and state attorneys general who supported post-election litigation are guilty of sedition. At least one Democratic congressman insists that attorneys representing the president in such challenges should be disbarred and that House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court shouldn’t be seated in Congress. One of the defendants in that ill-fated lawsuit described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
This dangerous view of dissent has a long, sordid history among progressives. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, for example, was the driving force behind the notorious Sedition Act of 1918, passed by his fellow Democrats at a time when they controlled both houses of Congress. This anti-democratic outrage made it a felony crime to criticize the government and, by extension, Wilson himself. A violation of the Sedition Act was punishable by a fine of as much as $10,000 and imprisonment for as long as 20 years. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act. This crime against democracy was at length repealed by the Republicans after the GOP won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1918 midterm elections.
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in months. Thank you. :)
The left lies about everything. People who consume only the Marxist press in the USA will never even know that there was any election fraud at all. I am so thankful for Freerepublic.
Remember when Hillary said “Resistance is patriotic”?
Funny, over 400 legitimate protests against Trump and over 1000 un-permitted ones in 4 years. Wouldn’t the qualify as sedition?
Only resistance against THEM is sedition. Otherwise, it’s perfectly fine.
They don’t even hide their tyrannical hypocrisy - if anyone had any doubts about how these scumbag haters of this country and traditional values would rule if given power, this gives them all the information they need.
The only thing that Trump can do to fight these people with which I would disagree is to give up and walk away (not that these vindictive bastards would LET him walk away, but that’s a different matter).
Geez. Anyone think the left knows anything about seditious behavior? Traitorous behavior? Backstabbery?
The left is all about re defining.
Resistance to Tyranny is obedience to God.
The country was founded by “seditionists”.
“ Geez. Anyone think the left knows anything about seditious behavior? Traitorous behavior? Backstabbery?”
You assume the left is going by the constitution. They are not.
I agree. The kid’s drawing is a work of art.
If the democrats were to gain control of the executive branch, we would all see how quickly martial law would become patriotic.
<>Historically, authoritarian regimes have used fictitious tales of treason as the pretext for crushing their political rivals and cowing their citizens into submission. This is invariably enabled by propaganda organs willing to parrot the regime’s party line while less compliant media are censored.<>
<>But that could never happen here, right? We’re Americans, right? We wouldn’t sit obediently behind our useless masks enduring a new wave of ineffective lockdowns while it appears that a presidential election is being stolen before our eyes, right? Right?<>
>>“seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
Like a 5 year witchhunt into Trump’s team? Recall it started BEFORE the election.
We should know by now there is no agreement with the left. If we say up, they say down, for no other reason than we said up. Trump should go scorched earth.
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