If you’ve been wondering why democrats are so keen on selling the January 6 nothing burger as a “deadly insurrection” it’s because they think it’s a way to keep Trump from running for president in 2024. If they can prove it was an insurrection and Trump incited it, he would be ineligible to run for office. It’s also an indication that democrats are pretty sure if Trump does run, he will win.
Check out this ominous headline from The Hill: Democrats quietly explore barring Trump from office over Jan. 6
That sounds like democrats are conspiring or even colluding. I’m told that collusion is a bad thing, but probably only when a Republican is accused of it.
In any case, here’s what those sneaky democrats are up to:
In the year since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a handful of Democrats, constitutional scholars and pro-democracy advocates have been quietly exploring how a post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution might be used to disqualify former President Trump from holding office again.
Pro-democracy advocates who want to lie to bar a person from participating in a democratic process? That’s a good one.
Calls for Congress to take steps to strip Trump of his eligibility, which reached a crescendo in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot, have since decreased. But those who remain engaged on the issue say discussions about applying Section 3 of the 14th Amendment have been ongoing.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
As you can see, if democrats can prove that January 6 was an insurrection and that Trump was responsible for it, they can keep him from running and winning in 2024. Trump telling his supporters to “go in peace” may be a slight roadblock to that effort, but the democrats did impeach him for starting an insurrection so they aren’t all that concerned with making a factual case.
The question is, how do they go about declaring Trump an insurrectionist? The only practical way discussed by The Hill’s “pro-democracy” advocates would be to have a simple majority of both chambers of Congress vote that Trump started an insurrection. That means they have to do it soon because democrats are going to lose their majorities in the House and Senate come midterms.
If the democrats can achieve this, it would take a super-majority vote in Congress restore Trump’s eligibility to run for president and that’s not something that is likely to happen.
The Hill named Jamie “The Rodent” Raskin, “Fat” Jerry Nadler, and Debbie “Fish Face” Wasserman Schultz as the democrats conspiring to bar Trump from presidential eligibility. I would say that’s a collection of the worst democrats but all democrats are equally as terrible.
It’s unclear if the democrats will be able to pull this off, but it certainly shows how scared they are that Trump will regain his rightful place in The White House.
