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Raskin: Trump Doesn’t Need Criminal Conviction to Be Disqualified for Presidency
Breitbart ^ | 11/16/2023 | Pam Key

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: criminal; disqualified; raskin; trump
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Red diaper retard strikes again.
1 posted on 11/16/2023 7:52:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“”They felt that if someone sets themselves at war against the Constitution,””

Does he mean like the democrats do every day?


2 posted on 11/16/2023 7:53:37 AM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They sure are scared. I guess the polls showing Trump beating Biden are quite accurate.


3 posted on 11/16/2023 7:54:18 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This war on PRESIDENT Trump is the only insurrection (coup) going on.


4 posted on 11/16/2023 7:54:20 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ratskin and Schitt two pees in a pot.


5 posted on 11/16/2023 7:54:25 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


6 posted on 11/16/2023 7:54:26 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


7 posted on 11/16/2023 7:55:23 AM PST by lodi90
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So he doesn't want the voters to decide on Donald Trump...

...explain to me again how Trump is against democracy .

8 posted on 11/16/2023 7:55:23 AM PST by fhayek
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There’s no end to this goofy pri*k is there.


9 posted on 11/16/2023 7:56:05 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, so far two left-leaning judges have disagreed with you, Jamie.


10 posted on 11/16/2023 7:56:25 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump can’t be disqualified even with a conviction you communist retard.


11 posted on 11/16/2023 7:56:30 AM PST by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

To Raskin: Horse sh#t!


12 posted on 11/16/2023 7:56:32 AM PST by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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Hey, dipsnot....

Being a convicted criminal does NOT disqualify you from the Presidency.... Read the constitution...


13 posted on 11/16/2023 7:57:06 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


14 posted on 11/16/2023 7:58:23 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


15 posted on 11/16/2023 7:58:52 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In my view, President Trump is trying to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law while the entire Deep State apparatus (dems and pubs alike) are trying to chuck the whole thing in the shredder and replace it with wokeist cult doctrine. By their own definition, this should disqualify, at minimum, the entire democrat party and most of the republicans as well. Donald Trump may well be the only man even qualified to hold office. Any office!
16 posted on 11/16/2023 8:00:55 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

That would be like letting a Kenyan run for office because it would be undemocratic, and quite frankly racist, not to allow him to.


17 posted on 11/16/2023 8:01:43 AM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s with the napkin on his head? Does he have cancer??


18 posted on 11/16/2023 8:03:15 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

RATSkin. Making liberal sh** up again.


19 posted on 11/16/2023 8:04:37 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: Thank You Rush

We really need to vote these clueless assholes OUT of public office.


20 posted on 11/16/2023 8:05:09 AM PST by jimbug
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