Posted on 03/05/2024 4:27:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Supreme Court didn’t dig into the weeds of the entire insurrection debate, but one obvious issue with the various efforts to remove Trump from the ballot in various states was that insurrection had been left entirely to Democrat state officials to define. That kind of nonsense however won’t fly in an actual legislative process.
Now that the Supreme Court blocked state officials from announcing that Trump can’t be on the ballot because he’s an “insurrectionist”, House members are now trying to play the same game.
Congress will have to try and act,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told Axios.
What he’s saying: Raskin, a former member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said he is already crafting the bill, telling Axios, “I’m working on it — today.”
Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in 2022 creating a pathway for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
“We are going to revise it in light of the Supreme Court’s decision,” Raskin said.
Raskin suggested the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.”
For now, in a GOP House, the bill is mostly virtue signaling, but tellingly Raskin is not so much trying to define insurrection as trying to define J6 as an insurrection. It’s the typical end run around the process of defining the thing because otherwise Democrat BLMers might fall afoul of it.
The Raskin bill conveniently defines J6 as an insurrection and carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump. It does not however define what an insurrection is making the whole exercise into a bill that specifically exists to block a particular candidate from being able to take office on grounds that would be unlikely to apply to his own party. Does that raise some major banana republic issues? Obviously.
Still, has Raskin considered what kind of can of worms he’s opening here?
“An individual described in this subsection is an individual who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or has given aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States.”
Forget BLM for a moment. Giving aid or comfort to America’s enemies would block nearly every Democrat from taking or holding office. Pass a resolution declaring that funding Iran or any other terror group was an example of providing aid or comfort to America’s enemies and the party can get started.
DemocRATs rebel against the Constitution of the USA every day.
Daniel Greenfield ping
They are so very scared Trump will expose their slush funds and evil doings.
Why would they start now? Theyve already made a mockery of impeachment and are seeing the boomerang effect from that right now. Besides the fact there was no actual insurrection , these folks seem intent on making Trump a perpetual martyr. How many of these loser are going to kill themselves next once Trump is their boss again? 😂
Right. They are fighting for their lives.
Anyone that’s votes for a Democrat even for dog catcher is a brain dead moron
It's both an "ex post facto law" AND a "bill of attainder".
They already use the Constitution for toilet paper, so why not?
I suspect that their strategy is to win it all - no matter the cost - in the expectation that we will be vanquished until the newly-minted ‘citizens’ give them a permanent super majority.
2024 may be our country’s last chance.
Truly
The Raskin bill
<><>conveniently defines J6 as an insurrection
<><>carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump.
<><>does not define what an insurrection is into an anti-Trump bill
<><>specifies blocking a particular candidate from being able to take office
<><>makes sure the bill defines “grounds” unlikely to apply to Raskin’s own party.
<><>raises some major banana republic issues.
“Have they considered the can of worms they’re opening here?”
Yes they have, they know the courts are biased and there are two standards.
The irony…their minions will never see it. These are the same minions that ignore the constitution with every unconstitutional bill or law passed. If this passes then no Democrat and 80% of Republicans could never run for office.
“2024 may be our country’s last chance.”
2024 IS our country’s last chance.
Why shouldn’t they? Democrat scum stole the last election and Republican cowards won’t even talk about it.
Just BS to keep the Lefty Base Angry and Stirred up and Donations flowing .
Its Works every time for the demonrats.
Sounds like that will affect the entire Democrat Party and all living Democrat Presidents!
That would include about half of the house and senate..
Now who didn’t know that this was coming as soon as the USSC ruling came out? I think the people are fully aware of the Democrats play book and the more they play with election interference, the more the people will support Trump.
Just watch. It seems as if they are digging their own graves. Except for one thing; The fraud machine. They wouldn’t be attempting this unless they KNEW they could pull it off again as in 2020.
“a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.””
Yes, by the federales.
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