While Gil Scott Heron asserted forcefully that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, the Cult45 armed insurrectionist attack on the Capitol was live on TV, cable, and social media. This sedition must carry consequences … consequences for all of those who illegally entered the Capitol, who assaulted journalists and destroyed property, and otherwise committed illegal actions today. These domestic terrorists must be prosecuted.
The consequences should also apply to those who aided, abetted, and otherwise comforted these insurrectionists and, as Jigar Shah puts it, it is ‘time for a refresher course on the 14th Amendment.”
The 14th Amendment makes quite clear the consequences for one group of these: numerous Republican Senators and Representatives.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative … who … as a member of Congress [has] given aid or comfort ...” to insurrectionists.
It seems that the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ‘comfort’ provisions apply to roughly 126 House members and a dozen Senators (such as Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley).
At least one House member is on top of this.
Let’s call on the rest of the House Democratic Caucus to join Rep. Cori Bush as co-sponsors of this resolution.
PS: Note, not “blue check” Angela but, well, it is worth the laugh …