Top GOP lawmakers, including Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, and House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Trump to the Supreme Court. They questioned if he was an insurrectionist.

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.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Forget Republicans. Conservatives core beliefs are about hierarchy.

    1. They want it to exist based on “who deserves it”
    2. They want to be on top
    3. Failing that, they want to suck up to the people on top

    That’s what happened before the Civil War too. The South didn’t give a shit about states’ rights. They wanted the Federal Government to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to force free states to return runaway slaves.

    They seceded because the Federal Government was changing. California was admitted as a free state, tipping the balance in the Senate to 16 free states vs. 15 slave states. They would no longer be able to use Federal Law to force the free states to do what they wanted.

    The Confederate Constitution was basically a copy of the US Constitution, but with a prohibition on the right for states to outlaw slavery. They took away states’ rights. So, yes the Civil War was about states’ rights, but the Union was fighting to preserve rights not the Confederacy.