New Petition Pressures US House Members Not to Seat GOP Insurrectionists in 2023

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/17/new-petition-pressures-us-house-members-not-seat-gop-insurrectionists-2023

New Petition Pressures US House Members Not to Seat GOP Insurrectionists in 2023


The petition argues that Republican Reps. Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene "are ineligible to hold future public office" under the 14th Amendment.


JAKE JOHNSON, JESSICA CORBETT
December 17, 2022

A pair of progressive advocacy groups launched a petition on Friday to pressure the U.S. House of Representatives not to seat returning members who supported the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

The petition, led by Free Speech for People and MoveOn, takes aim at three Republican members of Congress in particular, citing the section of the 14th Amendment that bars from federal office anyone who has taken an oath to support the Constitution then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion."

Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) "are ineligible to hold future public office," the petition argues, "having voiced support for and helped facilitate the deadly insurrection on our nation's Capitol on January 6th, 2021."

The petition, which nearly 67,000 people have signed as of Saturday morning, continues:

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[Cha]

1. No way should the Deadly Failed Coup

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members of the US House be seated.

They LOST.

TY!

[Trueblue1968]

13. THE PETITION IS HERE ....... https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/the-constitution-makes-clear-insurr

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/the-constitution-makes-clear-insurrectionists-are-barred-from-holding-future-office

[Cha]

17. TY!

[NullTuples]

2. GOP House leaders: "Oh, NO - NOT A PETITION!"

[BOSSHOG]

3. But that will mean they'll lose their socialist paychecks

[NBachers]

4. Alright, I signed. This should trigger another endless avalanche of demanding emails and texts

If only I could afford to hire office staff to respond to them all.

[shelshaw]

5. Dumb question, but wouldn't fewer seated members...

(especially the one’s mentioned) actually make it easier for McCarthy to be elected speaker? Maybe this would be motivation enough to dump their sorry asses???

[BWdem4life]

7. Drop enough of them and they won't have a majority.

I’m sure this will go nowhere, akin to petitions to impeach Bush and Cheney. The right thing rarely happens.

[PSPS]

6. Gee, that will be a hard decision

Over here is a petition. Over there is a bottomless pile of rubles. Gee, what a hard decision for a maga.

[karynnj]

8. I understand why they want to do this, but wait until they are charged and tried

Until then, no matter how their own comments show they were involved in the coup, we need to follow the process. We are the party following the law.

These actions play to the rights view of their own innocent victim hood.

[NJCher]

9. Re last sentence, who cares?

Look what Germany did. And remember, they are the country with experience with Fascism.

[karynnj]

12. "Purging" members we think deserve it, would lead to Democrats, who broke no laws, being out

when the Republicans take over. Note that most named WILL be almost surely replaced by Republicans.

Consider McCarthy already saying he will kick Adam Shift and Swalwell off the intelligence committee.

[MichMan]

16. The optics of punishing people for attempting to overturn an election, by overturning their own

election would certainly draw a lot of attention

[karynnj]

24. I wish I would have stated this as succinctly and eloquently as you did

You got to the heart of the problem.

[NJCher]

20. So what do you think is necessary?

A trial to determine if they said what they said?

Also what we do has no effect whatsoever with what they do. They are going to do crazy stuff regardless.

[karynnj]

23. I think we need to go through charging them and if they are found quilts, then remove them

It is basic law that you are innocent until proven guilty.

Another problem if this congress votes to throw them out, does that impact the new congress in January?

[NJCher]

25. so have a trial then

should be fun.

Sky is Blue

vs.

U.S. Government

Water is Wet

vs.

U.S. Government


now, just for even more fun, pretend you're a defense lawyer for MTG and do tell, what kind of defense would you put up for if Steve Bannon and I designed this we would have won.

Oh yeah, won. Won what? Of course! Some trump digital trading cards.

it seems perfectly obvious to me but if you want a trial, have one.

[progressoid]

18. +1

[lindysalsagal]

10. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Make it so!

[live love laugh]

11. Where do I sign? ✍️

[cbabe]

14. Link in the full article. Or post 13 above.

13. THE PETITION IS HERE ....... https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/the-constitution-makes-clear-insurr

[live love laugh]

15. Thanks 😊

[MagickMuffin]

19. And Whattabout Scott Perry and the rest?

Anyone who sent Mark Meadows a text message about “Marshal” Law should be kicked out. There are receipts who these dopes are. They don’t believe in Democracy therefore shouldn’t be able to be a representative in congress.

Wish it was that easy!

[tirebiter]

21. Do the math

This would lower the number of votes that McCarthy would need to become boss of the House. Good luck with yet another deep shot of naivete

[Tommymac]

22. Signed. 78150 and rising. nt