What does āinsurrectionā even mean?
Thatās the question top Republican lawmakers ā including Mitch McConnell, who previously held Donald Trump responsible for the riot on January 6, 2021 ā are asking the Supreme Court in a brief defending him from being disqualified in the 2024 election.
In a legal brief filed Thursday, 179 Republican politicians urged the court to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that kicked Trump off the 2024 ballot because it found he violated the 14th Amendmentās Section 3, which bans those who āengaged inā insurrection from running.
Didnāt McConnell himself say it was a āviolent insurrectionā? So he could probably define it.
We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. Thatās what it was