Posted on 11/16/2023 7:52:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” that former President Donald Trump does not need to be criminally convicted of insurrection for the 14th Amendment to disqualify him as president.
Raskin said, “The authors of the 14th Amendment themselves dealt with that question. They felt that if someone sets themselves at war against the Constitution, and engages in the most profound anti-democratic act of trying to overthrow an election by installing themselves in office with an insurrection, then at that point, they are constitutionally barred. So, when people say, it is undemocratic what the voters decide, that’s like saying, let Vladimir Putin run for president, even though he’s not a U.S. citizen because it would be undemocratic to deny that choice to the voters. The Constitution has already made that judgment.”
He continued, “I think what we need is a judicial determination of whether or not an impeachment by the House, 57 to 43 vote in the Senate, enough to establish as a civil proposition that he’s engaged in insurrection or whether you need additional adjudicated fact finding by the court. But nowhere does it say that you need to have a criminal conviction in order to make section three of the 14th Amendment apply.”
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“”They felt that if someone sets themselves at war against the Constitution,””
Does he mean like the democrats do every day?
They sure are scared. I guess the polls showing Trump beating Biden are quite accurate.
This war on PRESIDENT Trump is the only insurrection (coup) going on.
Ratskin and Schitt two pees in a pot.
never forget the reason for the left’s treason... a peaceful protest of election irregularities.
https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
january 6th rally for election integrity
GOTV red meat for the Democrat base. Marxist Democrats like Raskin just can’t stop campaigning for Trump. Ask yourself why that is. They want him on the ballot, obviously.
...explain to me again how Trump is against democracy .
There’s no end to this goofy pri*k is there.
Well, so far two left-leaning judges have disagreed with you, Jamie.
Trump can’t be disqualified even with a conviction you communist retard.
To Raskin: Horse sh#t!
Hey, dipsnot....
Being a convicted criminal does NOT disqualify you from the Presidency.... Read the constitution...
Raskins is amazingly, stunningly, incredibly stoopid - and that’s with TWO “O”s. I know he’s a radical commie who hates America, but you’d think he could craft a more coherent argument.
This is the retard’s opinion, and nothing he says is based in fact.
He has obviously never read the US Constitution, ever. It says nothing that he claims it says. He also claims legal processes that are not supported by the constitution.
That would be like letting a Kenyan run for office because it would be undemocratic, and quite frankly racist, not to allow him to.
What’s with the napkin on his head? Does he have cancer??
RATSkin. Making liberal sh** up again.
We really need to vote these clueless assholes OUT of public office.
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