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.

  • Coach@lemmy.worldEnglish
    741·
    11 months ago

    It means that time you shit your pants thinking the Trump Gang was going to hang your enabling asses. That was an “insurrection.”

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      Moscow Mitch said he didn’t vote to impeach because he should be criminally convicted instead.

      What what’s fucking new with that shit stain of a human?

      • Coach@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        I’m continually shocked they can stand upright, what without a recognizable spine and all. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: bunch of cuckolds, the whole lot of 'em.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
      46·
      11 months ago

      Just to clarify, this is not an example of Poe’s Law. Florida is really, actually, truthfully, no bullshit, banning most dictionaries in schools.

      Florida law currently prohibits books that depict or describe sexuality. Most decent dictionaries include definitions of sexual terminology. Consequently, schools are pulling dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wide variety of classical works and reference materials, rather than risk criminal charges.

      That kids won’t be able to look up the definition of “insurrection” at school is a welcome side effect for them.

      • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Just to clarify, the government is not specifically targeting dictionaries. They passed broad laws regarding acceptable content in school libraries and some teachers have been enforcing them very strictly as a for of protest.

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    19·
    11 months ago

    Republicans: The federal government is too big and acting like a nanny state!

    Hillbillies: The Civil War was all about states’ rights!!

    Hillbillies/Republicans/Same thing: How can a state do this?? Hurry federal government and overturn the state’s ruling!!

    • rifugee@lemmy.world
      18·
      11 months ago

      Republicans’ core beliefs are whatever benefits them, despite how hard they pretend otherwise. Luckily for them, they are immune to hypocrisy.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        4·
        11 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.

    • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      Hey now, there is a distinction to be made between rednecks and hillbillies. Rednecks fly the stars and bars, hillbillies fuck their daughters.

    • deft@lemmy.wtf
      71·
      11 months ago

      It isn’t Trump.

      If you send him to prison you normalize imprisoning politicians who did crimes.

      So big criminal politicians are trying to prevent that. If he doesn’t go to prison neither will they

        • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          you can see where if you were a politician who commits crimes (which is to say, a politician) and you were in charge of whether politicians who commits crimes go to jail, you might have a different opinion about these things

        • 0xD@infosec.pub
          3·
          11 months ago

          The problem is that they are criminals as well and would go to jail themselves.

          • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
            2·
            11 months ago

            Good thing it’s the justice department’s job. Checks and balances. Oh wait, my fucking Republicans took over the courts.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      181·
      11 months ago

      I don’t get it. Why does McConnell not simply retreat into his shell at the first sign of danger?

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        91·
        11 months ago

        He does. The GOP just had a special aide who will coax him out of there with slices of pizza. Each time he defends trump, he’ll get a whole pizza just for himself. Can’t blame the guy really. What else is he going to do when all his friends leave him to go play ninja with that stupid bearded rat?

      • Albbi@lemmy.ca
        61·
        11 months ago

        Why doesn’t McConnell simply just…

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        Senator, this way please.