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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 05, 2024, 04:05:05 pm
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Raskin and the Agents of Chaos: Democrats Prepare to Resume Disqualification Efforts in Congress
Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office.
The alternative, it appears, is unthinkable: allowing the public to choose their next president and representatives in Congress. It appears that the last thing Democrats want is for the unanimous decision to actually lead to an outbreak of democracy. Where the Court expressly warned of “chaos” in elections, Raskin and others appear eager to be agents of chaos in Congress.
Soon after the decision, Raskin went on the air at CNN to assure people that he and his colleagues would not stand by and allow the right to vote be restored to citizens in the upcoming election. He pledged to offer a prior bill that would declare Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.”
I previously wrote about these “ballot cleansing” efforts because it would not just disqualify Trump but potentially dozens of sitting Republican members of Congress. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory. Similar legislation offered by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats.
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https://jonathanturley.org/2024/03/05/raskin-and-the-agents-of-chaos-democrats-prepare-to-resume-disqualification-efforts-in-congress/
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But democracy
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But democracy
@LMAO
Communists, and communist-led nations always refer to themselves as the vanguard and protectors of "democracy".
But what they mean by "democracy", and what they always practice is: one-party rule.
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Democracy; two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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Democracy ... Nation of Laws ... Due Process ... Presumed Innocent Until Proven Guilty in a Court of Law ... Institutional Guardrails ... yadda yadda yadda
Dems better be damn careful here. Any extra-legal attempt to ban Trump from the ballot, without conviction at Impeachment or for Insurrection, will set a precedent Republicans can use to disqualify Dems from the ballot.
They had their chance to try and convict Trump at Impeachment, and they whiffed. They've failed to indict Trump for Insurrection, let alone convict him.
Stupid lawyers ... think words on pieces of paper are weapons for a street fight.
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