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.
Now let’s point out that to the extent the term is not defined, it’s definition is Congress’s responsibility (that is to say their responsibility). To the extent that their definition is unclear, it is the responsibility of the Court to interpret it. So are they complaining that they haven’t done their own job?
18 U.S.C. section 2383 has Congress’s current definition of insurrection.
In short, this is just grandstanding to distract their gullible base.
Traitorous scumbags.
Trump is never held accountable. Nobody else would get this type of treatment.
It isn’t Trump.
If you send him to prison you normalize imprisoning politicians who did crimes.
So big criminal politicians are trying to prevent that. If he doesn’t go to prison neither will they
So what’s the problem with that? If you’re a politician and you commit crimes, your ass should go to jail.
The problem is that they are criminals as well and would go to jail themselves.
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
Ah yes. The collective vanishing of the republican spine every 4 years.