Reach Montini at more opinions content, please subscribe.Back when the Clintons and their administration were bedeviled by conservative ratfckers and bed-sniffing yahoos like Ken Starr (and young Brett Kavanaugh), Hillary Rodham Clinton went on TV and called out what she called the “vast, right-wing conspiracy” that had targeted her husband and his presidency. 6, and none of those who gave them aid or comfort, would be permitted to hold elected office. If we believe in oaths – believe that those who swear to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” must be held to that promise – then none of the insurrectionists from Jan. Constitution matter or they don’t.īecause it is there in black and white in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. who are we?Īnd either the words in the U.S. #stopthesteal” Either we believe the Constitution or. 6 he tweeted a photo of demonstrators at the capitol and wrote, “ What happens when the People feel they have been ignored, and Congress refuses to acknowledge rampant fraud. He spoke at a “pre-rally” event and had been introduced by Ali as a “friend.” Likewise, Finchem, running for secretary of state in Arizona, was at the Capitol that day. We four schemed up of putting max pressure on Congress while they were voting so that who we couldn’t lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body hearing our loud roar from outside.”Īli gave a deposition to the House committee investigating the insurrection, and has also agreed to cooperate with a grand jury looking into the attack on the Capitol. 6 idea with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and then Congressman Andy Biggs. You may recall the now infamous video made by “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander in which he says, “I was the person who came up with the Jan. Biggs, Gosar and Fichem played a part in Jan. Meaning, another judge in another court could rule differently.Īnd should. Still, the effort to stop Cawthorn, so far, has failed.Įven so, Ron Fein, legal director for Free Speech for People, pointed out in a statement, “The court did not rule that Cawthorn is innocent of insurrection. And most importantly, its decision on the 1872 amnesty act does not set future precedent for any court.” That can only be done by another amendment. The fact is, no law passed by Congress can supersede something in the Constitution. Unfortunately, a federal judge hearing that case ruled that an 1872 amnesty law, meant to allow politicians from the defeated Confederacy to continue to seek and hold office, somehow applied to the insurrection of 2022. One of the first suits was filed against Republican Rep. Cawthorn was given a Civil War-era free pass But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.Īn organization called Free Speech for People is helping citizens file lawsuits that would bar politicians who were linked to the insurrection from seeking office. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. The reason “the party of the Constitution” should already have sent these politicians packing is laid out, simply and succinctly, in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. With a campaign consultant for Gosar calling the lawsuit aimed at keeping his guy and the others off the ballot “frivolous.” It's laid out in the 14th Amendment, Section 3 If words matter, if the Constitution mattered, “the party of the Constitution” would already have dumped these three Republican politicians from Arizona, as well as a number of others from different states, for their aid, comfort and support of those involved in the Jan. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, as well as state Rep. At least not with Republicans, who have long called themselves the “the party of the Constitution.”īecause if words mattered, if the Constitution mattered, the GOP would fully support the effort to bar U.S. Lately, however, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Words matter. And in the 245-year life of the United States of America, no words matter more than those in the Constitution.
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