February 15, 2024
What Is Congress For?
By Twilight Patriot
As I write this, Washington DC is dealing with the fallout of two events in which two different groups of people had to answer the question: what is Congress for?
One of these events came on February 8, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson. In this case, a collection of Colorado activists asked the Court to reaffirm the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to ban Donald Trump from running for re-election on the grounds that, back in January of 2021, Trump committed “insurrection” against the United States. The fact that the various criminal charges against Trump have not yet gone to trial is of little concern to them. Instead, they argue that because the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution bars officers who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding office again, judges should be able to remove an “insurrectionist” from the ballot as easily as they might remove a noncitizen, or a candidate who hasn’t reached the proper age.
Trump’s defenders had a different argument. They said that power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment is given to Congress. In 1870, Congress enacted a law saying that U.S. district attorneys, by filing a legal motion called quo warranto, could ask federal judges to remove ex-Confederates from office. Later on, that law was repealed.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/what_is_congress_for.html
