Destroying Democracy To Save It? Court Advances Effort To Block GOP Candidates From Ballots
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
The ridiculous lawsuits keep coming against Republican members of Congress to bar them from running for re-election, on the basis of claims that these members were involved in an "insurrection"
That, you know, they never meant in the amnesty act to give people amnesty forever, for being part of an insurrection. but i just think it's unlikely you're going to see much here. you got a republican-appointed administrative law judge who will make a recommendation to a republican secretary of state who is in a pitch battle with another trumpified in georgia and it's hard for me to imagine she'll get taken off the ballot. we'll see, i could be surprised, but it's really, would be a surprise if that happened. >> michael, i agree with you, and i think, if, you know, for every individual in thi...
Have a listen. >> the simple argument about this is the 1872 amnesty act, relieved the disability under section three, to quote, all persons whomsoever. representative green is an all persons whomsoever. >> so he is saying that this 1872 law covers anyone for the rest of the time, what do you make of that line of reasoning? >> it is crazy sane in a word. but more specifically, there is no textual support in the language of that statute. there is no historical support, and historical record for the idea that congress intended not long after section three of the 14th amendment was enacted, to es...
Constitution. >> jill, you see the judge even snapped up when he heard that, before the lawyer caught himself and backtracked. you have an idea that you can call for an insurrection as long as you want, you have not taken a congressional osha is bizarre and dangerous. >> it is, definitely. his argument, the lawyer for her, and making his arguments, he made so many absurd arguments. he argued that a statue overrode the constitution, and that she could not be punished for this, it was not a crime under the constitution because and 1872 amnesty act. he made a lot of first amendment arguments, whe...