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.
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?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
Trump appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, which agreed to take up the pivotal case in the coming weeks.
In their legal brief, the lawmakers argued Congress should enforce the 14th Amendment and that loose definitions of “insurrection” would allow “widespread abuse of Section 3 against political opponents.”
“Both Trump and Biden partisans could try to disqualify each other under Section 3, in tit-for-tat retaliation that has already been threatened,” the Republicans wrote.
“But once ‘engage in’ is defined so broadly, even significant countervailing evidence can simply be labeled as a ruse, as insufficient, or even as an implied recognition and praise of ongoing violence.”
A recent report by ABC News cited sources that claim Trump himself was reluctant to post the message and that one of his aides had to do it instead.
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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
They don’t want the supporters going after them.
I don’t get it. Why does McConnell not simply retreat into his shell at the first sign of danger?
He does. The GOP just had a special aide who will coax him out of there with slices of pizza. Each time he defends trump, he’ll get a whole pizza just for himself. Can’t blame the guy really. What else is he going to do when all his friends leave him to go play ninja with that stupid bearded rat?
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.