Posted on 09/09/2022 10:39:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
After Biden took over, Democrat activist groups began a push to disqualify Republicans who had participated in the Jan 6 protests from elected office based on the 14th Amendment. Adopted after the Civil War, it's mostly notable for abolishing slavery. But Section 3 also banned anyone from holding elected office if they have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." Aimed at Confederates, most would have considered this a dead letter, but the Left excels at digging up obscure legal fossils and making use of them.
The insurrection lawsuits have targeted members of congress, Senator Ron Johnson and local officials. But by defining anyone who questioned the 2020 presidential election results as an “insurrectionist” or having provided “aid and comfort”, the scope could be vastly larger.
A New York Times article lists "147 Republicans who voted to overturn election results". Lists like this are proliferating in time for the midterms and they are meant to be actionable.
The criminalization of the Republican Party achieved its first real win when a New Mexico judge removed Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin from office over his role in the Capitol riot using Section 3. But there were more troubling developments earlier this year when the 4th Circuit ruled in a case involving the disqualification of Rep. Madison Cawthorn that the 1872 Amnesty Act did not nullify Section 3. A Georgia federal judge ruled similarly in a case involving an election challenge to another House member, though that case later collapsed.
The Section 3 campaign lost in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Arizona, but it’s still alive.
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But the law matters less than the agenda. Some of these efforts have run into legal roadblocks, but they have also seen some success in using Section 3 to
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Why is everyone so sure the election in November won’t happen just like the one in 2020? The Democrats got away with it with NO consequences. In that one they concentrated on the top and in Georgia the Senate, too. Why would they not run a clean sweep this year? They can and it will not be opposed by the Republican Party and no judge will consider it.
No - THEIR - not in gender but in people, plural.
It’s proper English usage.
They don’t have </i>a</i> back. You are trying to remove gender from the language because ultimately it offends the sensibilities of the leftist professors who insist there is no distinction between the sexes so there must be no distinction among the genders. When you give them the language you give them the tools with which you think and will accept progressively more of their assertions because you cannot speak or think of them in any other way.
Abraham Lincoln, followed by FDR...then it is a tossed salad of people.
People refuse to believe the voting system is irrevitably corrupted. The soap box is controlled by Oligarchs in Tech, and the government. The steel canister that keeps the brass and powder dry, is stored away waiting for the government to lock us down.... like 2020 till today. Sure, they have relaxed, but only on the periphery.
The Trump Democrats would come firmly back on board, the NPC’s are too deeply programmed to vote for anything other than a (D), and 80 million new MAGA voters would wipe out all of the Uniparty frauds in purple states. And the MSM would simply gnaw itself to death in frustration over their inability to deprogram those they have brainwashed.
We must try again at the ballot box, because the alternatives are dear.
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