City voters kept electing him, anyway, and the House finally relented and seated Berger when they elected him a third time, after the war. Both times, the House invoked the amendment and refused to seat Berger. Instead, the victim, both times, was Socialist Victor Berger, elected twice to the U.S. Those lies prompted the invaders and insurrectionists.īut the 14th Amendment plan has also set off a debate among constitutional scholars, especially since it’s been used only twice-and not against the Confederate leaders after the South lost the Civil War, either. The proposal to invoke the 14th Amendment first arose just after the coup try, died down, but has been resurrected this year, as Trump continues to play kingmaker among Republican candidates-even in primaries-and even as top-heavy majorities of party officeholders and hopefuls kowtow to him by repeatedly endorsing his lies that the 2020 election was stolen. The violent insurrection disrupted the vote count for hours.īut while the panel focused on the past, the senators, the CBC and-among others-former Labor Secretary Robert Reich are focusing on the future, and on ensuring Trump can’t run for president, or anything else, in 2024, as he repeatedly threatens to do. Raskin credited then-Vice President Mike Pence with a key decision on the morning of January 6, by a public announcement that he refused Trump’s demand to throw out electoral votes of key swing states, thus nullifying Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s victory. “We’re going to tell the whole story of everything that happened,” he promised. “This was a coup organized by the president against the vice president amd against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin told National Public Radio, NBC, Reuters and The Guardian. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a constitutional law professor on leave, flatly-again-termed a “coup.” The CBC’s move comes just weeks before the House Select Committee probing the attacks plans to resume hearings in May on the insurrection, this time focusing on the actions of Trump (and his high-up staffers) whom at least one panel member, Rep. It states “No person” shall be a lawmaker, a presidential elector “or hold any office, civil or military under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath” to support the Constitution “shall have engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” Congress intended it to apply to former Confederate leaders, such as Jeff Davis.īy silence, the Constitution lets Congress invoke that ban by simple majorities in both Houses, but openly says the ban “can be removed” only by two-thirds majorities, the same requirement for Senate conviction on impeachment charges. The CBC bases its demand for the lifetime ban on Trump seeking office on Section 3 of the post-Civil War 14th Amendment, which states ratified in 1868. “Do you personally believe Trump should be banned from office forever?” it later asks, with a “yes” “no” or “unsure” option. The “petition,” gives recipients a “yes” choice or the option of leaving it blank.

“Will you add your name to our petition DEMANDING Congress invoke the 14th Amendment and BAN Trump from running for office again?” the CBC asked. Capitol, to invoke a little-used section of the Constitution to have Congress approve that ban, by simple majority votes. 6, 2021 Trump-inspired insurrection and invasion of the U.S. In a fundraising e-mail, the CBC’s campaign finance committee asks for opinions on legislation, backed by several senators and introduced just after the Jan. WASHINGTON-The Congressional Black Caucus is trying to revive a bill banning former Republican Oval Office occupant Donald Trump from seeking the White House-or just about any office above local dogcatcher-ever again. The argument made by the CBC is that, under the Constitution, his role in planning the insurrection and a coup at the Capitol disqualifies Trump from running for any office again.

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