As the Colorado Supreme Court wrote, January 6 meets the bar for insurrection āunder any viable definitionā of the term. The legal scholar Mark Graber, who has closely studied the Fourteenth Amendmentās history, argues that āinsurrectionā should be understood broadlyāan act of organized resistance to government authority motivated by a āpublic purpose.ā That certainly describes the Capitol riot, in which a violent mob attacked law enforcement and threatened members of Congress and the vice president in order to block the rightful counting of the electoral vote and illegally secure the victory of the losing candidate. The historical record also suggests that the amendmentās requirement that a prospective officeholder must have āengaged in insurrectionā should also be understood broadlyāmeaning that Trumpās speech on the Ellipse that morning and his encouragement of the rioters while they smashed their way through the Capitol more than fit the bill.
Everyday Iām reminded why democrats are weak. If the shoe were on the other foot they would cause so much of a stink the world would shutdown.
Itās almost like itās not the party of the billionaires who own much of the press
Itās more than that. Their people in congress have no interest in governing so when something like this comes up they can devote all their time and energy to it. Democrats think they always have to play fair lest they will face the consequence. Never risking being right over all else.