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.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Peacefully challenging an election is not "insurrection".
All Confederate soldiers gain presidential pardons, Dec. 25, 1868
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/25/this-day-in-politics-dec-25-1868-1074077
Marc Elias is a nitwit!
Yes, I’m quite sure this will happen.
“Our democracy” is a cover phrase for “you may never change those in power by peaceful means”.
Really.
Everybody whose business was torched by Burn Loot Murder and Antifa need to meet some good lawyers and join in a class action suit against these organizations and the democrat party.
Also certain people within the democrat party should be held liable.
Would trying to keep qualified candidates from participating in the political process, thereby undermining the foundations of our country, also count as insurrectionist activity? Perhaps he should be investigated and disqualified.
So will Biden's speech tomorrow. The Democrats are so obviously tone-deaf they don't realize that making a speech denouncing a political rival that you (allegedly) defeated is likely THE most classless thing a politician can do.
The party of lawlessness is doing what again?!
Who cares
They deserve nothing but ridicule and scorn
Wow. What have they got to run on? Trump led the insurrection. Congressmen are insurrectionists and are DQ’d.
That’s a positive, winning strategy.
But then they claim that the Republicans are a “danger to democracy.” F’ing tyrant-wannabee hypocrites.
Demorats behavior and tactics are worse than the war between the north and the south.....the Coup continues.
Aid or comfort to enemies would eliminate all Dems. Swalwell Feinstein. Hillary, Kerry, Talib. AOC, etc.
They have not been charged because ‘discovery’ would be a bitch.....................
That is their M.O. ....................
It is unconstitutional to hold a citizen prisoner without charging them.
They have been charged with relatively minor stuff, but no court dates have been set or bond/bail either..............
This action is bridge too far
It was their plan from the beginning...........................
This was their Attack on the Gleiwitz Radio Station, it matches the blueprint to a T.
Communism: You vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out.....................
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