Posted on 03/04/2024 11:57:20 AM PST by libh8er
Top Democrat Jamie Raskin said he is working with fellow liberals in Congress to revive legislation that would disqualify Donald Trump from running for office in light of the new Supreme Court ruling.
The high court on Monday ruled 9-0 that only Congress, not Colorado, can ban Trump from the ballot and the former president must be reinstated on the Centennial State's primary ballots.
Raskin, D-Md., who chairs the Oversight Committee, said he was collaborating with colleagues like Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to 'revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by section three of the 14th amendment.'
Such a bill was first introduced in 2022 by Schultz and would create a pathway for the Department of Justice to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
'The House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it,' Raskin told CNN shortly after the ruling. 'So, the House has already pronounced upon that.'
Meanwhile Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden told DailyMail.com in a statement: 'The Supreme Court got it right.'
'I believe Donald Trump incited the violence that took place on January 6, and my vote to impeach him for it reflects that belief. But the House impeachment vote alone is not enough to preclude him from the ballot,' he said.
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It takes a 2/3rds majority in the House and the same in the Senate.
Ashley Babbitt was murdered.
So there’s that.
Even if they pass the bill, the bill would need to be constitutional. There is not enough time for that. Trump would need to be convicted in a court of law of insurrection.
“They are capable and they are willing to do whatever it takes to stop him!”
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Exhibit A — Crossfire Hurricane.
So the House referred charges, but the Senate did not find him guilty.
Your tyrannical dictators have spoken without regard for we, the people.
Hillary was right, she and her wrecking crew should be hung!
Just ignore the fact that the senate ACQUITTED him.
“The turnip is speaking Thursday. SOTU.”
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Mumbling, stumbling and bumbling.
He’s the butt of jokes all around the world.
The Constitution is to protect the People from the Government, not protect the Government from the People..............
Commies will refuse to leave power they will never cease power this is who they are
“We have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it!” - Democrats
Exactly what I was thinking.
This is going to send his poll numbers sky high.
Democrats just don’t know when to quit. They should have nothing to do with elections.
See my tagline.
Yep, the insurrectionists won in 2020 by hook and crook. They’ll try again, maybe succeed.
It is absurd that both sides come up with all sorts of things that are DOA yet they act as if they are doing something that is viable. “Passing” bills that go nowhere, having committee hearings that really don’t do anything, impeachment hearings that are as dead and dried up as Hillary’s va-ja-ja. The list goes on yet collectively these bozos can’t be concerned about the country running up another trillion in debt service every few months and turn a blind eye to the cost of millions of leeches entering the country who not only steal social services they steal from, rape, maim and kill US citizens.
The US is a big fat hog that has already been slaughtered and cut in to pieces by the degenerates in Washington. They are kind of like the line in the Joker movie when Michael Caine says “Some men just want to watch the world burn”.
To a thinking person with the ability to ingest a lot of information and make sense of it the people in Washington DC obviously have no sense of common sense and certainly they lack the ability to give a $hit about the average American. Nope, they are strip mining thieves and the only way to stop their insanity is to elect the most badass guy we can find who will go medieval on them.
“The Constitution is to protect the People from the Government”
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That being the case we should want to limit the size, scope and power of government in the interest of ensuring our liberties. Government’s relentless expansion is seemingly contrary to the principles of the Constitution.
Exhibit B : JFK assassination
Such an idiot the author is to claim that Raskin chairs the Oversight Committee! The Ds are in the minority. Raskin is the Ranking Member, not the Chairman.
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