New in PJ Media:
“In recent years,” Barack Obama tweeted Tuesday, “we’ve seen how quickly disinformation spreads, especially on social media. This has created real challenges for our democracy.” As Hunter Biden can attest, all too often yesterday’s “disinformation” has become today’s hot news, and that’s the strongest possible case for not banning it. But for Obama and his fellow Leftists, “our democracy” means “Leftist hegemony,” and Leftists have never hesitated to resort to decidedly undemocratic means to protect that hegemony. Their latest target is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), whom they’re trying to prevent from running for reelection not by defeating her in a primary, but by banning her from running because she supported their fictional January 6 “insurrection.” And now it’s clear why they keep insisting it was an “insurrection” in the teeth of all the evidence to the contrary.
A group of Leftists in Georgia have filed suit to bar Greene from running again, based on a clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that prohibits those who have participated in an insurrection from holding office. The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 says: “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. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
This remedy was designed to keep unrepentant Confederates out of public office after the Civil War (although many did hold office, as more often than not Congress voted to waive the prohibition). It has been dormant since then. But if January 6 were an insurrection — which hasn’t been proven or even established with a shred of credible evidence in impeachment proceedings of Donald Trump or in the trials of the alleged “insurrectionists” that have taken place so far — and if Greene supported it — which also is not the case, since there wasn’t any insurrection to support — then she can’t run for reelection. Only good Democrats and Romneyite Republicans will be left on the ballot. How very convenient.
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Rev G says
Doesn’t seem problematic, supporting an insurrection is not the same as participating. Or else I would be a pro at a number of things that I could never participate at.
And of course, claims of “insurrection” would first need to be proven before any such collateral penalties could be imagined.
I don’t see that ever happening, regardless of hard the left wishes it would.
The left loves to hear itself talk, and create mountains from molehills, all the while ignoring the skeletons in their own closet. Hypocrisy is their stock in trade.
Infidel says
I wouldn’t rule it out. If Mike Pence could punt and hand Biden the presidency, there’s no telling what the Left today can get away w/. Until 2024, it’s anyone’s game
mortimer says
More calumny from the CALUMNY-LOVING Dems.
The calumny in question is the word ‘insurrection’ … something that did not happen and could not have happened because no one had the such an intention.
There were however acts of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE on Jan. 6, but we all know that CONSERVATIVES are not allowed to commit acts of civil disobedience. Only LEFTISTS are granted permission to act out their rage in major acts of vandalism, lootings and burnings! BLM and Antifa get away with it. Conservatives don’t get away with walking into a building doing a short sit-in, before meekly walking out when asked.
mortimer says
Excellent summary by Robert Spencer: ” … for Obama and his fellow Leftists, “our democracy” means “Leftist hegemony,” and Leftists have never hesitated to resort to decidedly undemocratic means to protect that hegemony.”
PMK says
Dems have tried this maneuver on other Republicans. Just last month a federal judge blocked a similar attempt in North Carolina. He shut down an effort to prevent House candidate Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection on the grounds that he had participated in ‘insurrection’. The judge ruled that the Amnesty Act of 1872 effectively nullified that part of the 14th amendment. MTG should cite this precedent.
gravenimage says
Thanks, PMK. I hadn’t heard about that.
gravenimage says
Leftists File Suit to Bar Marjorie Taylor Greene From Ballot Because She Supported ‘Insurrection’
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They aren’t even pretending they can run in honest elections…