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Just in case you were wondering, Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin is still hyperventilating over the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Raskin, as you may remember, was the impeachment manager — akin to a prosecutor — during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. He still claims, despite no conviction in Congress or in a court of law saying that Trump’s actions constituted an “insurrection,” that the leading 2024 GOP contender should be taken off the ballot for just that reason.
And if Trump isn’t, Raskin told CNN on Sunday, he’s going to “try to overturn the election result again” — even though, as he’s not the sitting president, he would likely have no significant power to do so.
The congressman was on the show to discuss the latest state to kick Trump off the primary ballot for specious reasons, this one being Maine. The reasoning, according to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, is that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which denies office to those who have “engaged in insurrection.”
Despite the fact that the provision in question dealt mostly with Civil War-era figures who defected to the Confederacy, Raskin said the argument was constitutionally sound because it could be interpreted broadly.
“It says, if you’ve sworn an oath to support the Constitution and violated the oath by engaging in insurrection or rebellion, you can never hold public office again,” he said on CNN.
“And the original purposes of it are equally clear, because, actually, when the language was first authored by the radical Republicans in Congress, it was very broad.
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