House Republicans have filed a resolution to overrule the Democrats’ false 14th Amendment claims by declaring that President Donald Trump “did not engage in insurrection.”
Trump has faced concerted efforts from activists nationwide to have him disqualified and removed from state election ballots under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Democrats and their allies have repeatedly used the false claim that Trump “engaged in insurrection” during the protests at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies anyone who “engaged in insurrection” from running for office, hence the past three years of false Jan. 6 claims peddled by the Democrats and the corporate media.
Some of Trump’s closest allies in Congress are now pushing back against those ballot removal efforts, however.
Republicans have introduced a resolution to the House that explicitly declares that President Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States,” The Hill reported.
The likely goal of the resolution is to undermine the foundational arguments of the formal complaints and lawsuits filed in dozens of different states that allege Trump is disqualified from holding public office under the “insurrection clause” of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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