House Democrat invokes Civil War amendment that would prevent 126 Republicans from being seated in C [View all]
Source: Lancaster Courier
House Democrat invokes Civil War amendment that would prevent 126 Republicans from being seated in Congress
Since 126 House Republicans signed off on outgoing President Donald Trump’s attempts to subvert democracy to stay in power, a House Democrat is now urging Democratic House leaders to use the 14th Amendment to prevent them from being seated in the next Congress.
Trump’s latest effort to overturn the election results failed miserably on Friday when all nine Justices rejected Texas’ long-shot lawsuit demanding the high court disenfranchise voters in four states and declare Trump the winner of the 2020 Election.
Not only did over a dozen Republican state attorneys general join the lawsuit, 126 Republicans in the House signed off on it as well, therefore they all sought to overthrow democracy and the Constitution in a betrayal of our country that constitutes treason.
Well, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) has a remedy to punish all 126 of those Republicans and he urged Democratic House leaders to invoke it. It turns out that Section III of the 14th Amendment, which was passed by Congress and ratified just after the Civil War, makes it clear that such lawmakers can’t hold office.
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