Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin (D - 8th District) has vowed the U.S. Congress would overturn a potential victory by Donald Trump in the November presidential election, even if the move would provoke "civil war conditions" in the country. Raskin made the declaration in a February video that was tweeted by his former Republican colleague from New York, Lee Zeldin, on August 5. "It's going to be up to us on January 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified," Raskin states in the video. "And then we need bodyguards for everybody, and civil war conditions."
Raskin, who represents a large part of Montgomery County and a small part of Prince George's County, cited Section III of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as the tool to disqualify Trump, should he win a second term. That provision disqualifies elected officials who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, but then engage in insurrection against the U.S. government, from holding federal elected office. It was added after the U.S. Civil War as a mechanism to prevent politicians on the Confederate side from holding federal office again.
"It could not be clearer what [Section III is] stating," Raskin said in his remarks, which were excerpted from a larger discussion about the right to vote at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.. The month after Raskin made these comments, a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress was the only body that could disqualify a candidate under Section V of the 14th Amendment. Raskin challenged the validity of some electoral votes in Trump's 2016 victory, but was gaveled out of order by Vice-President Joe Biden, who was presiding over the election certification proceedings.
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DeleteWe are in good hands with our dauntless defender of democracy.
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ReplyDelete“Raskin: Congress would overturn a 2024 Trump victory”
ReplyDeleteThat’s not what Raskin said, at all.
He said Congress will not allow another coup attempt like the Republicans did on January 6, 2021.
Did you watch the video? He said exactly what the headline and quotes in this article state. Anyone can watch the video and confirm that for themselves. He said the violence would result from Congress overturning the election result in January 2025.
DeleteDidn't they already do this after the 2016 election?
ReplyDeleteIs sounds more like an episode from DuckTales with the Terries and Fermies going at it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a piece of trash. "We believe in democracy, unless it goes against us, & we can't get away with rigging it"
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ReplyDeleteThe republicans will save our republic
And when the dog and pony show is done
The expenses will be paid by the naive public.
Who voted for this idiot?
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