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In reply to the discussion: If you tried to overthrow the government* you should not be alllowed to be part of that government. [View all]Duppers
(28,127 posts)4. YES, yes indeed!!
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.
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If you tried to overthrow the government* you should not be alllowed to be part of that government. [View all]
Botany
Dec 2022
OP
Read that again -- it takes Congress to *remove* the disability, not impose it.
Hermit-The-Prog
Dec 2022
#41
And some of those very same "inside people" who gave tours and pushed the coup prior to and during the ....
Botany
Dec 2022
#20
Their ideas were traitorous, but they're still overed by 1A. What law can you cite that they broke?
ancianita
Dec 2022
#11
Of course they did. But don't try to tell me the law covers all wrong statements.
ancianita
Dec 2022
#17
Tying "violent actions" to anyone on this list could do that, but so far we don't know if
ancianita
Dec 2022
#29
I hope you're right and I hope this US Code on aiding and abetting works to nail them.
ancianita
Dec 2022
#18
the most ridiculous thing I heard last night I think it was Michael Steele, who said
bonniebgood
Dec 2022
#22
These people have lost all touch with reality as it relates to anything political.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2022
#44