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.

  • deft@lemmy.wtf
    7·
    10 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·
        10 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·
        10 months ago

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

        • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
          2·
          10 months ago

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