{"id":2319861,"date":"2024-08-06T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jamie-raskin-predicted-civil-war-conditions-to-come\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:17:03","slug":"rep-jamie-raskin-predicted-civil-war-conditions-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jamie-raskin-predicted-civil-war-conditions-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jamie Raskin Predicted &#8216;Civil War Conditions&#8217; To Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Frep-jamie-raskin-predicted-civil-war-conditions-to-come%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=2319861&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--><p>U.S. \u2064Representative \u2064Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from\u2064 Maryland, has sparked \u200ccontroversy with comments suggesting that Congress will take action to prevent former President\u200c Donald\u2064 Trump from becoming president again, \u2062should\u2063 he be elected. During a \u200drecent discussion, Raskin criticized \u2064the U.S. Supreme Court for not fulfilling its role, particularly \u2062in relation\u2062 to attempts to bar \u200cTrump \u200bfrom the\u200b ballot under the 14th Amendment&#8217;s Section 3. He warned that if elected, it would be up to Congress to respond to \u2062&#8221;rampaging \u2063Trump mobs&#8221; and that\u200c security\u2063 measures\u200b would be necessary due to the tensions surrounding\u200b such a situation.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin&#8217;s rhetoric has drawn criticism for being \u200bincendiary and divisive. Some Republican leaders argue that his comments illustrate \u2064a willingness among some Democrats to undermine the electoral process if \u200cit does \u200bnot yield the desired results, effectively contradicting their claims of protecting democracy. Amid a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberty-safe-announces-new-privacy-measures-after-public-backlash-over-fbi-debacle\/\" title=\"Liberty Safe responds to public outcry with enhanced privacy measures following FBI controversy.\">heated political climate<\/a>, Raskin&#8217;s statements reflect \u200dthe extreme views within the current Democratic party and raise concerns about the implications for democratic norms \u200band civilian political discourse. <\/p>\n<p>Raskin \u200dand other left-oriented\u200b figures have been vocal about their \u2063beliefs regarding voter rights and \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">election integrity<\/a>, often asserting that current interpretations\u2063 of the Constitution favor conservative agendas. They advocate for \u2064significant changes to ensure\u2063 what they consider true democracy, even as they \u2064face legal and constitutional challenges in their efforts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you listen to U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the real insurrection will be led by Democrats and it will begin on Jan. 6, 2025 &mdash; should the American people dare to elect former President Donald Trump president again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/3If_fz8GatQ\">video clip<\/a> making the rounds Monday on social media, the far left firebrand laments what he characterizes as a lazy U.S. Supreme Court interfering with the Democratic Party&rsquo;s plan to interfere with the 2024 election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And so [the court] want to kick it to Congress, so it&rsquo;s going to be up to us on Jan. 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he&rsquo;s disqualified,&rdquo; Raskin said in a panel discussion on Feb. 17, as the Supreme Court was mulling the constitutionality of the leftist Colorado secretary of state&rsquo;s use of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to remove Trump from the state&rsquo;s presidential primary ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions all because nine justices &mdash; not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not much work to do, have a huge staff, great protection &mdash; simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great 14th Amendment means,&rdquo; Raskin declared at a Washington, D.C. bookstore gathering of self-important leftists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Jamie Raskin is saying that congress will STOP Trump from taking office even if he&rsquo;s chosen by the voters.<\/p>\n<p>This is extremely dangerous. Every Democrat needs to be on the record about this immediately. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9IwRoGrrQu\">pic.twitter.com\/9IwRoGrrQu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1820544999584666038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Raskin&rsquo;s rant may rank among the more incendiary comments about the court since U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., unleashed his &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/06\/08\/2020_flashback_schumer_tells_kavanaugh_you_have_released_the_whirlwind_and_you_will_pay_the_price.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release the whirlwind&rdquo; diatribe<\/a> at a pro-abortion rally on the steps of the high court in 2020. The congressman&rsquo;s vitriol simply cements the fact that the same people calling Trump a threat to democracy would assault the will of the people to keep the Republican from governing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congressman Raskin continues to stoke the flames of division in this country through his use of incendiary language aimed at his political opponents, and once again proves the hypocrisy of leftists like him who slander conservatives in an attempt to mask progressives&rsquo; proclivity towards violence which has been on full display in cities and college campuses across America in recent times,&rdquo; U.S. Rep. Anthony D&rsquo;Esposito, R-N.Y., told The Federalist Monday evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Raskin&rsquo;s office did not respond to a request for comment.&nbsp;His bellicose statements will mean nothing if Republicans take back the Senate and hold the House, but they are a look into the Trump-hating radical mindset of Democrats that will stop at nothing to maintain power. In a tinder box election year seared by an assassination attempt against the GOP&rsquo;s presidential candidate, Raskin&rsquo;s threatening rhetoric now seems more like the release of the whirlwind than ever. <\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;This year is critical&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The congressman, known for his overheated rhetoric, made his fiery statements alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/sherrilyn-ifill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sherrilyn Ifill,<\/a> leftist law professor and former president and director-counsel of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/naacp-legal-defense-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund<\/a>. She also served on the boards of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/george-soros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Soros<\/a>&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/open-society-foundations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Society Foundations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/naacp-legal-defense-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> InfluenceWatch. Raskin and Ifill were discussing the latest book by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/richard-l-hasen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rick Hasen<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/organization\/safeguarding-democracy-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Safeguarding Democracy Project<\/a> at the UCLA School of law and vehement critic of basic voter integrity tools such as voter ID. Hasen&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691257716\/a-real-right-to-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book,<\/a> <em>A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy<\/em>, as the title implies, calls for a constitutional amendment to &ldquo;enshrine the right to vote.&rdquo; He and his fellow leftists assert the Supreme Court historically, and particularly today&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-transgender-sex-offender-cant-change-name-to-avoid-sex-offender-registry\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Transgender Sex Offender Can&#039;t Change Name to Avoid Sex Offender Registry\">conservative-led court<\/a>, has been &ldquo;no friend of the people.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that &ldquo;the path to a constitutional amendment is undoubtedly hard,&rdquo; Hasen insists that changing the constitution by outlawing fundamental state election integrity laws is the way to save democracy. In the meantime, militant-sounding Democrats believe they&rsquo;re on a righteous mission to save democracy &mdash;&nbsp; even if it means destroying it. Their dire warnings bounded into the absurd. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I absolutely believe that this year is critical to whether or not we are a democracy this time next year having a conversation in this room, having this conversation, which will be allowed in this place but there will be many places in this country where it&rsquo;s not allowed,&rdquo; Ifill dourly predicted. &ldquo;Should we get past next year as a democracy this is the work we should be doing.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember that all of this theatrical melancholy came days before the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that kicking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-gives-fiery-rnc-speech-without-teleprompter-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson gives fiery RNC speech without teleprompter - Washington Examiner\">political party&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-trumps-social-security-attacks-on-desantis-making-it-hard-to-talk-reform\/\" title=\"GOP Senator: Trump\u2019s Social Security Attacks On DeSantis Making It Hard To Talk Reform\">leading political candidate<\/a> off the primary ballot under the auspices of an amendment that enshrines the principle of due process doesn&rsquo;t comport with the Constitution. It doesn&rsquo;t look real good for democracy, either.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colorado&rsquo;s far left secretary of state agreed with leftist lawfare groups that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment barred Trump from running because he, without being convicted of the crime, in their eyes engaged in an insurrection.&nbsp;The Constitution, contrary to the Democrats&rsquo; twisted reading, gives Congress, not the states, enforcement authority over the post-Civil War amendment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/23-719_19m2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court ruling<\/a>, released in March, states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Something Akin to a Civil War&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>As the decision loomed, Raskin expressed foreboding that the court would not uphold Colorado&rsquo;s decision to disenfranchise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/03\/05\/super-tuesday-2024\/trump-wins-colorado-primary-election-results-00143674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">555,000 voters<\/a> who cast ballots for Trump in the Centennial State&rsquo;s March primary &mdash;&nbsp; and many millions more to follow in other blue states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Last night I was most worried about the Supreme Court&rsquo;s prospective, imminent abdication of its very clear duty to disqualify Donald Trump form the ballot &hellip; and what that might mean if their decision says it&rsquo;s really up to Congress on Jan. 6, 2025 to disqualify him at the counting of electoral college votes, which really could lead to something akin to a civil war,&rdquo; Raskin told his fellow D.C. leftists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keeping with his party&rsquo;s projection campaign talking points, Raskin insisted that &ldquo;the right to vote is under attack in very specific ways in lots of states.&rdquo; He is, of course, correct. Just not in the way the liberal elitist thinks he is. Democracy is under attack, and Democrats hold the cudgel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the true insurrection will be orchestrated by Democrats and is set to commence on January 6, 2025, if the American electorate chooses to re-elect former President Donald Trump. In a widely circulated video from Monday, Raskin criticizes what he perceives as a complacent U.S. Supreme Court that is hindering the Democratic Party&#8217;s efforts to influence the upcoming 2024 election. He stated during a panel discussion on February 17 that it would be Congress&#8217;s responsibility on January 6, 2025, to inform &#8220;the rampaging Trump mobs&#8221; of Trump&#8217;s disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin expressed frustration over the Supreme Court&#8217;s reluctance to interpret Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in relation to Trump&#8217;s eligibility for Colorado\u2019s presidential primary ballot. He claimed that this inaction could lead to dangerous conditions requiring protection for lawmakers due to potential civil unrest instigated by Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have pointed out that Raskin\u2019s comments reflect an alarming willingness among some Democrats to undermine electoral outcomes if they do not favor their agenda. Republican Representative Anthony D&#8217;Esposito condemned Raskin&#8217;s remarks as divisive and hypocritical given recent instances of leftist violence across America.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin made these statements alongside Sherrilyn Ifill, a prominent leftist law professor and former NAACP leader, while discussing Rick Hasen\u2019s book advocating for constitutional amendments aimed at safeguarding voting rights against perceived threats from conservative courts.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their dire predictions about democracy being at stake this year, recent Supreme Court rulings have indicated otherwise\u2014specifically ruling against attempts by state officials in Colorado who sought to bar Trump from running based on claims of insurrection without a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>As discussions around these issues continue within Democratic circles, there are concerns about escalating tensions leading up to future elections and how far some may go in their efforts against political opponents like Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2319862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-05-at-11.50.11-PM-1024x488.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34944,32892,37315,34347,35343],"class_list":["post-2319861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-jamie-raskin","tag-political-climate","tag-political-predictions","tag-u-s-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-05-at-11.50.11-PM-1024x488.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319861","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}