and a special sunday edition of the velshi banned book club brings us a beautiful, lyrical story of love and identity, a novel about mexican born texas raised gay teens that we ll feel universal when you read it. my conversation with the author, who will discover the secrets of the universe, it s one that you will not want to miss. velshi starts next. good morning to you, i am ali velshi, sunday, october 2nd. we have reached a new phase in the ever winding investigation into the insurrection of the u.s. capitol. tomorrow, marks the high profile trial seven from the january six so far. it s a rare case in u.s. history, or something called seditious conspiracy is charged, meaning the defendants are not discharged violent crimes but an effect on our country. opening arguments in the seditious conspiracy trial, this man, you oath keepers founder, stewart rhodes and four other individuals with the far-right booker said to begin tomorrow, hundreds of alleged interactions are bein
willing to go through in order to move the country into redeeming the constitution. now we have a violent insurrectionists who have forgotten the whole message of this civil war, which is you don t have a right to take up arms against the u.s. government. that is the importance of all of these cases. we have had more than 900 prosecutions against the january six insurrectionists. there s not a single one where a federal, or state court for that matter, has dismissed the charges on the grounds that the people are lawfully engaged in second amendment insurrection. i want to ask you about ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. she made a statement to the january six committee is been obtained by the federalist which he says, i can guarantee my has been ever spoke with the about pending case of the court. it s an ironclad rule in our home. i generally do not discuss with him my day to day work in politics. the topics i m working on, who i am calling, emailing, t
and a special sunday edition of the velshi banned book club brings us a beautiful, lyrical story of love and identity, a novel about mexican born texas raised gay teens that we ll feel universal when you read it. my conversation with the author, who will discover the secrets of the universe, it s one that you will not want to miss. velshi starts next. good morning to you, i am ali velshi, sunday, october 2nd. we have reached a new phase in the ever winding investigation into the insurrection of the u.s. capitol. tomorrow, marks the high profile trial seven from the january six so far. it s a rare case in u.s. history, or something called seditious conspiracy is charged, meaning the defendants are not discharged violent crimes but an effect on our country. opening arguments in the seditious conspiracy trial, this man, you oath keepers founder, stewart rhodes and
the states to suppress insurrections. the republic guaranteed clause says they must guarantee the people of the states, it republican form of government, and has the power to put down domestic violence. even section three of the 14th amendment says anyone who has sworn an oath to hold and defend the constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic, who violates it by engaging in insurrection, or rebellion, may never hold office again. so the whole edifice of the constitution is designed to stop insurrection. yet, we have republicans who, this day are claiming there is some kind of constitutional right to engage in it. it is ridiculous. the only thing that they cite is the declaration of independence, which of course says when in the course of human events, people are being oppressed by tyrants, they could overthrow the government. this is true, but that s a natural law of right, another right contained in the constitution of the united
the winner of the presidential election, roads then called on his fellow members to quote, refused to accept it. and march en masse on the nation s capital, end quote. he did march en masse and according to the federal prosecutors, not under the constitution s first amendment protections of the right to possibly assemble, but rather with the attempt to use force against the u.s. government to block democratic certifications of the presidential election. and now lawyers for stewart rhodes, the oath keepers, plans to put the insurrectionist ex president at the center of roads defense. according to the associated press, his defense team is expected to argue that the oath keepers leader went to the nation s capital that day, in anticipation of direct orders from the then president of the united states. we will argue that rhodes believed trump would invoke the insurrection apt to call up a militia to prevent biden thing office and rhodes and his mötley crüe of extremist oath