What does “insurrection” even mean?
That’s the question top Republican lawmakers — including Mitch McConnell, who previously held Donald Trump responsible for the riot on January 6, 2021 — 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 Amendment’s Section 3, which bans those who “engaged in” insurrection from running.
Pretty sure the U.S. Code says it means to act or incite to act against the authority of the United States. Such as the authority of the United States says it’s time for Congress to count and certify electoral votes, and you try to stop it from doing so. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383
It means that time you shit your pants thinking the Trump Gang was going to hang your enabling asses. That was an “insurrection.”
Moscow Mitch said he didn’t vote to impeach because he should be criminally convicted instead.
What what’s fucking new with that shit stain of a human?
Let me add a reminder that Trump’s state, Florida, is moving to ban dictionaries…
Just to clarify, this is not an example of Poe’s Law. Florida is really, actually, truthfully, no bullshit, banning most dictionaries in schools.
Florida law currently prohibits books that depict or describe sexuality. Most decent dictionaries include definitions of sexual terminology. Consequently, schools are pulling dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wide variety of classical works and reference materials, rather than risk criminal charges.
That kids won’t be able to look up the definition of “insurrection” at school is a welcome side effect for them.
Just to clarify, the government is not specifically targeting dictionaries. They passed broad laws regarding acceptable content in school libraries and some teachers have been enforcing them very strictly as a for of protest.
What does “mean” mean anyway ?
Didn’t McConnell himself say it was a “violent insurrection”? 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. That’s what it was
