{"id":1190448,"date":"2022-01-05T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190448"},"modified":"2022-01-05T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:34:40","slug":"left-launches-effort-to-win-midterms-by-disqualifying-republicans-for-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-launches-effort-to-win-midterms-by-disqualifying-republicans-for-insurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Launches Effort to Win Midterms by Disqualifying Republicans for &#039;Insurrection&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-launches-effort-to-win-midterms-by-disqualifying-republicans-for-insurrection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1230622166-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Some Democrats are using the anniversary of last year\u2019s Capitol riot on January 6 to launch an effort to win the 2022 midterm elections by disqualifying Republicans who supported the effort to challenge the 2020 elections results as \u201cinsurrectionists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effort, spearheaded by Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/04\/marc-elias-democrat-lawyer-who-pushed-vote-by-mail-in-2020-also-behind-russia-dossier-in-2016\/\">hoaxer<\/a> Marc Elias, aims to use a provision of the post-Civil War 14th Amendment that was crafted to disqualify former Confederates or anyone who \u201cshall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof\u201d from holding federal office. Elias has pushed the effort for months:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress\u2026who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress\u2026shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.&#8221;-US Constitution<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1424122370592329732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My prediction for 2022: Before the midterm election, we will have a serious discussion about whether individual Republican House Members are disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from serving in Congress. <\/p>\n<p>We may even see litigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pF7P2fw0kn\">pic.twitter.com\/pF7P2fw0kn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1473118873302056961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elias is the main election lawyer for the Democratic Party nationwide and has worked closely with national party leaders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Liberal groups \u2014 one even calling itself \u201cFree Speech For People\u201d \u2014 are following suit. In a press statement Wednesday, they said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nonprofit public interest organizations Free Speech For People and Our Revolution today announced a partnership to urge Secretaries of State to bar elected officials who engaged in the January 6, 2021 insurrection from appearing on any future ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretaries of State have a duty to ensure that candidates who seek to appear on their state ballots meet the constitutional qualifications for serving in public office,\u201d says Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Campaign Director for Free Speech For People, \u201cThose who violated their oath of office by engaging in the violent January 6th insurrection do not meet these terms. Thus, we are urging election officials to make clear that insurrectionists such as President Trump and his Congressional allies are barred from ever again holding public office, as is required under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn many levels, our democracy is under threat, and grassroots activists are ready to stand up to defend it,\u201d said Paco Fabi\u00e1n, Director of Campaigns for Our Revolution. \u201cWe need to demand that our election officers follow the rule of law and ensure that current and former elected officials who participated in the January 6th insurrection are barred from appearing on any future ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who assisted President Donald Trump\u2019s team in encouraging challenges to the election results in Congress is defined as \u201cparticipating\u201d in the insurrection, according to the coalition, which cites a&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289\/\">report<\/a> as its source, and names several incumbent Republican members of Congress whom it would disqualify for doubting the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats have already begun <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/588132-democrats-loose-talk-of-disqualification-still-dangerous\">demanding<\/a> the disqualification of Republicans who merely signed legal briefs supporting election challenges in the courts. As liberal constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who opposes the disqualification effort, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/588132-democrats-loose-talk-of-disqualification-still-dangerous\">noted<\/a> recently, the U.S. vehemently opposes such efforts in other countries, such as Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, as has been shown repeatedly, many Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/12\/trump-defense-team-plays-clips-of-election-objections-from-2017\/\">objected<\/a> to the certification of election results in the past, and Elias himself led the Democrats\u2019 effort to plant the idea that Trump\u2019s election in 2016 was illegitimate because of \u201cRussia collusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Democrats\u2019 new standard, many of their own \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/07\/02\/biden-democrats-assemble-600-lawyers-to-fight-election-chicanery\/\">President Joe Biden<\/a> \u2014 would be disqualified.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Democrats are using the anniversary of last year\u2019s Capitol riot on January 6 to launch an effort to win the 2022 midterm elections by disqualifying Republicans who supported the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}