Posted on 03/05/2024 5:13:50 AM PST by Lakeside Granny
Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office.
The alternative, it appears, is unthinkable: allowing the public to choose their next president and representatives in Congress. It appears that the last thing Democrats want is for the unanimous decision to actually lead to an outbreak of democracy. Where the Court expressly warned of “chaos” in elections, Raskin and others appear eager to be agents of chaos in Congress.
Soon after the decision, Raskin went on the air at CNN to assure people that he and his colleagues would not stand by and allow the right to vote be restored to citizens in the upcoming election. He pledged to offer a prior bill that would declare Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.”
I previously wrote about these “ballot cleansing” efforts because it would not just disqualify Trump but potentially dozens of sitting Republican members of Congress. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory. Similar legislation offered by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats.
Raskin’s participation in this effort is crushingly ironic. In 2016, he sought to block certification of the 2016 election under the very same law as violent protests were occurring before the inauguration.
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Demorats will of course continue to try and disqualify Trump....their foot is heavy on that pedal now.
Rat-Skin and the other rodents are drawing greater and greater support to Trump among minorities with their Javert act. They might not know who Javert is but they recognize unfair use of government agents to hound them and they sympathize with Trump.
Keep it up Rat-Skin, you’re certainly a scumbag, but you’re our scumbag now.
The 94% number is urban legend. The 35% / 48% number is taken from 2022. The Federal workforce skews democrat for certain but the actual rank and file is not too far off from the general population who are the people who make up that workforce. Of course in the DC area the democrat sympathies will be a bit higher but nowhere near 94%. Government Executive reported that employee support for Biden in 2020 was about 60%. That is still too much but much closer to “normal” people LOL.
Yes, Jimmy Ratskin is a bought and paid for weasel!
Another urban legend about the federal workforce is its heavily unionized. It isn’t! Note below is 2017 numbers.
Percent unionized of federal workforce is 26.6%.
State and local government workforce of 36.1 %.
(Note not sure if the state and local percentages include teachers.)
Also, it seems to be heavily concentrated in postal workers & treasury.
It would violate rules against ex post facto legislation, bills of attainder and due process. Congress can pass legislation - laws defining insurrection and providing that the penaly shall be removal from office. But the charge of insurrection then becomes case or controversy which is tried by an article III court.
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