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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    10 months ago

    Republicans: The federal government is too big and acting like a nanny state!

    Hillbillies: The Civil War was all about states’ rights!!

    Hillbillies/Republicans/Same thing: How can a state do this?? Hurry federal government and overturn the state’s ruling!!

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      10 months ago

      Hey now, there is a distinction to be made between rednecks and hillbillies. Rednecks fly the stars and bars, hillbillies fuck their daughters.