What does “insurrection” even mean?
That’s the question top Republican lawmakers — including Mitch McConnell, who previously held Donald Trump responsible for the riot on January 6, 2021 — are asking the Supreme Court in a brief defending him from being disqualified in the 2024 election.
In a legal brief filed Thursday, 179 Republican politicians urged the court to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that kicked Trump off the 2024 ballot because it found he violated the 14th Amendment’s Section 3, which bans those who “engaged in” insurrection from running.
Just to clarify, this is not an example of Poe’s Law. Florida is really, actually, truthfully, no bullshit, banning most dictionaries in schools.
Florida law currently prohibits books that depict or describe sexuality. Most decent dictionaries include definitions of sexual terminology. Consequently, schools are pulling dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wide variety of classical works and reference materials, rather than risk criminal charges.
That kids won’t be able to look up the definition of “insurrection” at school is a welcome side effect for them.
Just to clarify, the government is not specifically targeting dictionaries. They passed broad laws regarding acceptable content in school libraries and some teachers have been enforcing them very strictly as a for of protest.
I love that they banned Bill O’Reilly’s books. And obviously, the Bible.