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.

  • @Suavevillain
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    188 months ago

    Trump is never held accountable. Nobody else would get this type of treatment.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      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

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        So what’s the problem with that? If you’re a politician and you commit crimes, your ass should go to jail.

        • Alien Nathan Edward
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          58 months ago

          you can see where if you were a politician who commits crimes (which is to say, a politician) and you were in charge of whether politicians who commits crimes go to jail, you might have a different opinion about these things

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            Good thing it’s the justice department’s job. Checks and balances. Oh wait, my fucking Republicans took over the courts.