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.

    • deft@lemmy.wtf
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      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

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          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

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          The problem is that they are criminals as well and would go to jail themselves.

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