SCOTUS to Insurrectionists: Welcome!
SCOTUS outrageous rewriting of the US Constitution yesterday sent a loud message to all of the January 6 insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol and attacked police to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election: “Please run for office! We won’t stand in your way!” The 14th Amendment was enacted after the Civil War to be assure that those who participated in the Confederacy against the US government could not then return as elected officials in that government. The Trump Thomas SCOTUS shattered that yesterday when they rewrote it by throwing up a roadblock making it impossible to enforces unless Congress passed a law stopping it. While going out of their way to protect TFG, they opened the door to insanity in our elections. Expect the nuts, mouthbreathers, and Nazis who stormed the Captitol now try to take over the government at the ballot box.
It’s unimaginable.
And another court cut the guts out of how the insurrectionists already convicted were charged. Expect a bunch of them out on the streets soon.
1And here’s the ONLY answer for y’all to the problem, FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!
Something that I’ve been raving about for years.
No effing polite ‘they go low, we go high’ bullshit. No more bipartisan, friendly accommodation of christo-fascist sworn enemies. They want to bury you!
Time to go for the jugular, to fight almost as dirty and nasty as they do. You won’t get another chance.
This is something that absolutely has to be read, and ACTED UPON by all Democrats, dozens of actions and graphics [suitable for c&p, distribution]:
“Rachel Bitecofer is Right: SCORCHED EARTH, MOFOS. SCORCHED EARTH. Hit ‘Em Where It HURTS!”:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/3/2227165/-Rachel-Bitecofer-is-Right-SCORCHED-EARTH-MOFOS-SCORCHED-EARTH-Hit-Em-Where-It-HURTS
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a more thorough and hard-hitting collection of what has to be done.
Read it.
[The DK diarist who aggregated and published it, Yosef 52, has been one of the most dedicated and prolific Democratic activists ever; he’s raised tons of dinero for Dems, written hundreds of articles, and motivated chingos of others to action.]
2It was a unanimous decision though. So, obviously the progressive members of the court agreed on the law this time. There is a fundamental problem with the provision in the amendment. Being a member of the confederacy made you a de facto insurrectionist so there was no need for a finding of fact.
In this case, who or what is to determine that any particular person participated in insurrection? None of the Jan 6 participants have been charged as such, so they could credibly argue that while guilty of any number of felonies and misdemeanors they haven’t been saddled with that specific charge.
So, you run into the problem with fatass that we know he participated in an insurrection, everyone saw it, and it passes every definition of it, but no one has bothered to make it official. From a legal standpoint it comes down to two basic questions. First, can states (such as a Colorado) sufficiently reach a finding of fact on the insurrection question. Secondly, if they can’t (as the court is essentially saying) then who is qualified to answer that question?
3It was unanimous but the liberal justices plus Amy Barret said they went too far after the fact. I guess we’ll see where this goes with the immunity ruling which as I’ve commented, I’m concerned. The fact that Barret sided with the liberal justices might be a crack in their armor.
4Project 2025, people if you want a scarier read than the Scrotus courts decision.
5Sandridge has it right again.
6Or as my favorite author said, “Your status in hell is determined by the size of the honor guard you take with you.”
SCOTGOP NOT SCOTUS .
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