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Left Launches Effort to Win Midterms by Disqualifying Republicans for ‘Insurrection’
https://www.breitbart.com ^ | 5 JANUARY 2022 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 01/05/2022 1:01:54 PM PST by Red Badger

Some Democrats are using the anniversary of last year’s Capitol riot on January 6 to launch an effort to win the 2022 midterm elections by disqualifying Republicans who supported the effort to challenge the 2020 elections results as “insurrectionists.”

The effort, spearheaded by Russia hoaxer Marc Elias, aims to use a provision of the post-Civil War 14th Amendment that was crafted to disqualify former Confederates or anyone who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” from holding federal office. Elias has pushed the effort for months:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress…who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress…shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."-US Constitution

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 7, 2021

My prediction for 2022: Before the midterm election, we will have a serious discussion about whether individual Republican House Members are disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from serving in Congress.

We may even see litigation. pic.twitter.com/pF7P2fw0kn

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 21, 2021

Elias is the main election lawyer for the Democratic Party nationwide and has worked closely with national party leaders.

Liberal groups — one even calling itself “Free Speech For People” — are following suit. In a press statement Wednesday, they said:

Nonprofit public interest organizations Free Speech For People and Our Revolution today announced a partnership to urge Secretaries of State to bar elected officials who engaged in the January 6, 2021 insurrection from appearing on any future ballot.


(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2022election; demsplot; disqualifyrepubs; iylm; jan6
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1 posted on 01/05/2022 1:01:54 PM PST by Red Badger
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“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley


2 posted on 01/05/2022 1:02:39 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

This is another one of those phookers that needs to hang.

We are definitely gonna need more rope.


3 posted on 01/05/2022 1:05:04 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Red Badger

This will fail.


4 posted on 01/05/2022 1:05:23 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Red Badger

What insurrection!! PHOOEY!!!!

“Jan 6” is really January 6—Theophany!!!! Let’s keep it that way, and shut the vile Dims up!!!!


5 posted on 01/05/2022 1:06:12 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Red Badger

When the election fraud is exposed then a LOT of them will be covered by this.


6 posted on 01/05/2022 1:07:15 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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"Nonprofit public interest organizations Free Speech For People and Our Revolution today announced"

Oh, so its ok when they have a revolution

7 posted on 01/05/2022 1:07:16 PM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn
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To: Red Badger

It might work. I mean, who’s going to oppose them? The courts will declare there is no standing. They will declare that there is no damage until after the election, at which time they will declare it is too late.


8 posted on 01/05/2022 1:07:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s all the Dems have are these false accusations, like Russia, they are pathetic and the media that carries their water is even worse.


9 posted on 01/05/2022 1:08:01 PM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

The ‘issue’ is never the ‘issue’. The ‘issue’ is ALWAYS the REVOLUTION!................


10 posted on 01/05/2022 1:08:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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11 posted on 01/05/2022 1:08:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Red Badger

Maxine Waters supported the 1992 LA Riot, which she called “an uprising.” There are probably dozens of examples of Democrats supporting AIM, Occupy, Code Pink, Black Panthers, BLM, Antifa...


12 posted on 01/05/2022 1:08:36 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: Red Badger

Nov 3-4 2020 was the insurrection. Jan 6 2021 was the protest against the criminals who rigged the election.


13 posted on 01/05/2022 1:09:24 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: PghBaldy

What group had a “sit in” or something a few years ago. Wasn’t it during the Kavanaugh hearings that people were banging on doors etc?


14 posted on 01/05/2022 1:10:23 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Red Badger

Nobody has been charged with the crime of insurrection. This is slander and should be treated as such.


15 posted on 01/05/2022 1:10:37 PM PST by lodi90
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Marc Elias is the man who brokered the sale of the DNC to the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, according to evidence uncovered by Donna Brazile.

-PJ

16 posted on 01/05/2022 1:11:38 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Macoozie
This is another one of those phookers that needs to hang.

Some patriots should simply "disappear" him.

17 posted on 01/05/2022 1:12:27 PM PST by Salvey
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To: Jeff Chandler

This is what happens when you don’t have an opposition party. Dems and their Fake News operatives are making a pinata out of President Trump and anybody who supports him. They are free to continue with their slander because the GOP has gone AWOL from the political battlefield.


18 posted on 01/05/2022 1:12:37 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Red Badger

Well, then, CHARGE those who are in jail for “insurrection”. Not one of them is charged for this.

They’ve been in jail for a year, with no court dates. Political prisoners, pure and simple.


19 posted on 01/05/2022 1:12:50 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Red Badger

They seem to always accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of.


20 posted on 01/05/2022 1:13:13 PM PST by FranklinsTower
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