From Human Events :
But now that riot is coming from the other side of the aisle, the AP wants to make sure that everyone knows when Democrats engage in “an act or instance of revolting against civil authorities or an established government,” it is absolutely not an insurrection. (snip)
the AP trots out and entirely new definition of the word insurrection to back their idea that storming the capitol and distrupting legislative sessions is absolutely not an insurrection.
“Legal experts say the term insurrection has a specific meaning — a violent uprising that targets government authority,” they say. And then the reach back into the 18th and 19th centuries for a definition, though in 2021 a perfectly contemporary definition would do.
“That’s how dictionaries described it in the 18th and 19th centuries,” the AP writes deserately, “when the term was added to the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University.”
The AP states that despite the arrests, those little protests in Montana and Tennessee “didn’t involve violence or any real attempts to dismantle or replace a government,” and quote the Harvard professor again to say that “it’s wrong to call them insurrections.”
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