YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoColorado judge strikes down Trump's attempt to toss a lawsuit seeking to bar him from the ballotapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down15
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minus-squarezabadoh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoSo they’re textualists until it applies to them… “Engaged in insurrection” means exactly that. It doesn’t mean they succeeded, it doesn’t mean they just thought about it, it certainly doesn’t say anything about an act of Congress. He assembled the mob, and literally gave them their marching orders that January 6th. If that isn’t worth at least a participation trophy, then I don’t know what is.
So they’re textualists until it applies to them…
“Engaged in insurrection” means exactly that.
It doesn’t mean they succeeded, it doesn’t mean they just thought about it, it certainly doesn’t say anything about an act of Congress.
He assembled the mob, and literally gave them their marching orders that January 6th.
If that isn’t worth at least a participation trophy, then I don’t know what is.