#insurrectionists

[mysharona1987]

#Joe biden #elon musk #politics #twitter #barack obama #fox #insurrectionists #democrats #republicans #donald trump #insurrection

[deadpresidents]

Oh, really? NO SHIT.

#Cults #Insurrectionists

[saywhat-politics]

The evidence is irrefutable. Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, having voiced support for and helped facilitate the deadly insurrection on our nation’s Capitol on January 6th, 2021, are ineligible to hold future public office. When the new Congress convenes, a Member-elect of the House may challenge, under House procedures authorized by the Constitution, the qualifications of another Member-elect. We must urge them to do so.

Sign today to tell your representative they MUST challenge the eligibility of Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene when the new Congress convenes on account of their roles in planning, facilitating, and supporting the deadly January 6th insurrection.

Why is this important?

The coordinated and violent attack on the United States Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the presidential vote on January 6, 2021 was an insurrection against the United States.

Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment makes clear that anyone who has previously sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, and then engages in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States (or provides “aid or comfort” to its enemies) is permanently disqualified from holding future public office.

Publicly available evidence establishes that Rep. Paul Gosar helped facilitate the insurrection, before, during, and after January 6, 2021. Not only was he among a handful of Congress members who expressed vocal support for the insurrection as it was happening , but, according to news reports, Gosar went so far as to offer organizers of the pre-attack demonstration a “blanket pardon” in connection with unrelated criminal investigations, encouraging what would no doubt be an illegal act of violence.

#moveon #petition #insurrectionists

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 4, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAR 5, 2024

Today the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states cannot remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. Colorado officials, as well as officials from other states, had challenged Trump’s ability to run for the presidency, noting that the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits those who have engaged in insurrection after taking an oath to support the Constitution from holding office. The court concluded that the Fourteenth Amendment leaves the question of enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment up to Congress. 

But the court didn’t stop there. It sidestepped the question of whether the events of January 6, 2021, were an insurrection, declining to reverse Colorado’s finding that Trump was an insurrectionist.

In those decisions, the court was unanimous.

But then five of the justices cast themselves off from the other four. Those five went on to “decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and petitioner from future controversy,” as the three dissenting liberal judges put it. The five described what they believed could disqualify from office someone who had participated in an insurrection: a specific type of legislation.

Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in one concurrence, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett in another, note that the majority went beyond what was necessary in this expansion of its decision. “By resolving these and other questions, the majority attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office,” Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson wrote. Seeming to criticize those three of her colleagues as much as the majority, Barrett wrote: “This is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency…. [W]ritings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up.” 

Conservative judge J. Michael Luttig wrote that “in the course of unnecessarily deciding all of these questions when they were not even presented by the case, the five-Justice majority effectively decided not only that the former president will never be subject to disqualification, but that no person who ever engages in an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States in the future will be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Disqualification Clause.”

Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife, Ginni, participated in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, notably did not recuse himself from participating in the case.

There is, perhaps, a larger story behind the majority’s musings on future congressional actions. Its decision to go beyond what was required to decide a specific question and suggest the boundaries of future legislation pushed it from judicial review into the realm of lawmaking. 

For years now, Republicans, especially Republican senators who have turned the previously rarely-used filibuster into a common tool, have stopped Congress from making laws and have instead thrown decision-making to the courts.

Two days ago, in Slate, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that when Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was Senate majority leader, he “realized you don’t need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don’t need to change hearts and minds. You don’t need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists…[a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called ‘law.’”

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters from an American #Heather Cox Richardson #corrupt SCOTUS #illegitimate SCOTUS #14th amendment #election 2024 #insurrectionists #Mitch McConnell #J.Michael Luttig

[helloyesamwoman]

"NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH" the last thing i hear before being sent into orbit

i really like these guys, pain in the ass to fight sometimes but god design wise they're incredible, the silly goobers if you will also had to include the Twinsurrectionists cause they need more love (also fixed them cause their texture in game is literally just an overlay slapped over the normal texture and I Don't Like It)

#ultrakill #digital arwork #indie game fanart #indie game characters #indie game art #ultrakill fanart #fanart #gorey art #bloody #blood #bloody art #buff men #buff man #red and blue #greed #sisyphean insurrectionist #twinsurrectionists #insurrectionists #my BOYS #my goofy goobers #my lilttle meow meows you might say #teeth #big teethy boys #they're so fucked up and i love them for it #i also like to imagine there's a bunch of them that have varied skin tones and damage to them #just a full on diverse army of insurrectionists y'know?

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Alaska State Rep. David Eastman (R), an Oath Keeper who attended the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, sparked outrage on Monday when he asked whether there could be economic benefits to the deaths of abused children.

Eastman made the befuddling remarks during a State House Judiciary Committee hearing this week that focused on how adverse childhood experiences, like physical or sexual abuse, can negatively affect an individual throughout their life. During the hearing, a representative from the Alaska Children’s Trust delivered a policy briefing to legislators focused on the fact that fatal child abuse and neglect can cost the family and broader society over time an estimated $1.5 million in health care expenses and potential lifetime earnings.

When it was his turn for questioning Eastman used data from the policy brief to claim that the death of an abused child could be “cost savings” for the government.

“It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment,” he said.

“Can you say that again? Did you say, ‘a benefit for society?’” Trevor Storrs, president and CEO of the Alaska Children’s Trust asked in response to Eastman’s question.

“I’m not even sure how to answer that,” he said, adding the loss of a child is “unmeasurable” to a family.

It’s not the first time Eastman has come under fire for making outlandish and offensive remarks. And the state lawmaker’s very position in elected office has come under scrutiny. A former constituent filed a lawsuit after the Jan. 6 insurrection arguing that Eastman’s membership in the far right Oath Keepers group made him ineligible to hold office in Alaska. There were some indications that he might be booted from office back in September, but ultimately a Judge ruled in his favor, allowing him to keep his position in the state House.

State Rep. Cliff Groh (D) said he was “disturbed” by Eastman’s line of questioning, according to Anchorage Daily News. His Republican colleagues aren’t thrilled with the remarks either.

“I wished that he asked questions with a little bit more sensitivity to the listeners and how they’re perceived, and I can have that conversation,” Republican Rep. Sarah Vance, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, told the Daily News. “But he’s there on his own accord and only represents himself.”​​

Correction: This article initially misstated Eastman’s status with the Oath Keepers. He is a LIFETIME MEMBER. TPM regrets this error.

#us politics #news #tweet #twitter #republicans #conservatives #gop #alaska #gop platform #gop policy #republican family values #child abuse #tw child death #David Eastman #oath keepers #insurrectionists #capitol riot #capitol riot investigation #Alaska House Judiciary Committee #Alaska house of representatives #Alaska Children’s Trust #adverse childhood experiences #child neglect #Trevor Storrs #the Alaska landmine #Cliff Groh #Sarah Vance #Anchorage Daily News #talking points memo

[lenbryant]

GOP is trying to normalize January 6 and whitewash the insurrection.

#politics #maga me sick #maga #republicans #trump #vote #insurrectionists #january 6 #house hearing

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #american civil war #fuck the confederates #confederate states of america #fuck the confederacy #a confederacy of dunces #veterans #us military #treason #traitors #insurrectionists

[gwydionmisha]

#Insurrectionists #Jan. 6 #Coup Attempt #Republicans #News

[mysharona1987]

#uk politics #democrats #republicans #boris johnson #january sixth #insurrectionists #politics #gop

[thingstrumperssay]

Ashli Babbitt was shot to death. I wouldn’t call that “letting them in.”

And the fact of the matter is, the protesters weren’t trying to overthrow the government. That’s what makes it not an insurrection.

#ashli babbitt #january 6 #jan 6 #jan. 6 #Insurrection #insurrectionists #tennessee #protests #protest #mrsmariah bunchofnumbers

[fspgrad]

Ted Cruz needs to be held accountable for his role in trying to overthrow the government. Indict and arrest this fucking traitor.

#thom hartmann #insurrectionists #jack smith #ted cruz #Youtube

[saywhat-politics]

#insurrectionists

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jon Ostrove

#US Constitution #safeguarding democracy #trust #constitutional democracy #insurrectionists

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

#madison cawthorn #seditious domestic terrorism #tre45on #insurrectionists

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Donald Trump has come under fire for amplifying a call to his supporters to get “locked and loaded” and “physically fight” for the Republican party’s front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections.

Mr. Trump, who is actively using his own social media platform Truth Social after he was barred from Twitter, reposted a message by a supporter who seemed to suggest violence.

“Then they will have to figure out how to fight 80,000,000 + it’s not going to happen again. People my age and old will physically fight for him this time,” a Truth Social post from username @freeTX1776 read.

“What we got to lose? I’ll donate the rest of my time here on this planet to do it. And I know many many others who feel the same. They got my 6 and we Are Locked and LOADED.”

Mr. Trump, who was investigated for over 18 months by a House committee over his role in the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot, was blamed as the “central cause”.

His supporters descended on Capitol Hill after he told his more than 80 million Twitter followers to come to Washington on the day Congress would make final his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden, and wrote that the day’s events would be “wild”.

The twice-impeached President was called out by prominent people on social media for amplifying a message that suggested a repeat of the 6 January riots.

Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger, who was one of two Republicans on the Democratic-led January 6 select committee, asked whether it is even legal to support this for a presidential runner.

“This is sick sick sick. Is it legal to even invite this kind of stuff?” Mr. Kinzinger, 44, a staunch critic of Mr. Trump, said.

Former FBI agent Peter Strozk, who shared the screenshot on Twitter of Mr. Trump resharing the post, said it is the “normal signs of a well-functioning democracy” in an apparent sarcasm.

He referred to Mr. Trump’s latest comments in which he said he trusts Russia’s president Vladimir Putin over his own Director of National Intelligence.

Responding to Mr. Kinzinger, attorney Harris Peskin said he is stunned. “Absolutely shocked that the guy who tried to overthrow the government the first time, would try again. I just DID NOT see this coming! What a twist!”

The official Twitter handle for the Lincoln Project said: “Just appalling. Trump is gearing up for another January 6th attack. Show this to anyone who does not take seriously the existential threat that MAGA poses to our democracy.”

#us politics #news #donald trump #the independent #political violence #violent rhetoric #republicans #conservatives #gop #truth social #trump supporters #alt right #domestic terrorism #Adam Kinzinger #insurrectionists #Peter Strozk #tweet #twitter #Harris Peskin #the lincoln project #capitol protests #capitol riot