The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress

[PSPS]

The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress

Ryan Cooper
Sat, December 12, 2020, 3:30 AM PST

Let's review two pieces of news from the last week. First, the American coronavirus pandemic is entering its worst stage yet, with cases and deaths skyrocketing across the country. Last Thursday saw over 3,000 deaths — more than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor — and with ICU beds at or near capacity in most of the country, absent serious change it is possible there will be double or even triple that number per day in a matter of weeks. We may yet top the deadliest day in American history, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 that killed an estimated 8,000 people, very soon. President Trump is doing precisely nothing about this.

Second, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is under investigation for bribery and abuse of office, filed a baldly seditious lawsuit calling for the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and hand their electoral votes to Trump. It was flatly an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, end constitutional government, and install Trump in power. Before the Supreme Court threw the suit out Friday night, 17 other Republican state attorneys general had joined him, along with 126 members of the Republican caucus in the House, while Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has agreed to represent Trump. And this is just one of dozens of attempts that Republicans at all levels of government have concocted to overturn Trump's loss.

In short, material conditions in this country have not been this bad since 1932 at least, and the political situation has not been this bad since 1860. The logical endgame of the rapidly-accelerating Republican attempt to destroy democracy while the country burns would be civil war — if it weren't for the high probability that Democratic leaders would be too cowardly to fight.

But it's worth thinking about what a party seriously committed to preserving democracy would do when faced with a seditious opposition party — namely, cut them out of power and force them to behave. Democrats could declare all traitors ineligible to serve in national office, convene a Patriot Congress composed solely of people who have not committed insurrection against the American government, and use that power to re-entrench democracy.

The rest: https://news.yahoo.com/constitution-answer-seditious-members-congress-113001597.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Sounds about right to me, convene a patriot Congress and throw the republican party out of

power. They clearly made their point to the rest of us that they don't care for the rule of law, for fair and free elections (in holding or honoring the results of such elections, etc.). None of them deserve to hold office now or forever. They are traitors.

[Wicked Blue]

2. When can Cruz be disbarred? nt

[dlk]

3. After the bar complaints have been filed...

[beachbumbob]

4. need to our leaders to show some guts otherwise its blah blah and the evil doers get away agin

need to use the 14th Amendment, need to classify white hate groups as terrorist groups and need to do so as soon as possible and as hard as we can. We got lots of cages to put militia members in. Otherwise 2022 and 2024 will be terrible for our country and beyond