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.
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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.
Trump appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, which agreed to take up the pivotal case in the coming weeks.
In their legal brief, the lawmakers argued Congress should enforce the 14th Amendment and that loose definitions of “insurrection” would allow “widespread abuse of Section 3 against political opponents.”
“Both Trump and Biden partisans could try to disqualify each other under Section 3, in tit-for-tat retaliation that has already been threatened,” the Republicans wrote.
“But once ‘engage in’ is defined so broadly, even significant countervailing evidence can simply be labeled as a ruse, as insufficient, or even as an implied recognition and praise of ongoing violence.”
A recent report by ABC News cited sources that claim Trump himself was reluctant to post the message and that one of his aides had to do it instead.
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