• CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I am aware of the facts, but again, there was no conviction of insurrection or anything related. Do you understand how the conviction is the important part, not what people claim?

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      7 months ago

      Conviction is not the important part, at all.

      The 14th Amendment was intended to keep former Confederates out of government. The people who wrote it had no intention of putting former Confederates on trial.

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        7 months ago

        I agree, that amendment was directly talking about confederates who had done a known and agreed on insurrection.

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            7 months ago

            Jan 6th wasnt and insurrection, and trump would need to be convicted of an insurrection not just declared guilty by someone.

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              7 months ago

              Nobody needed to be convicted in 1868, therefore Trump doesn’t need to be convicted today.

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                  7 months ago

                  The 14th Amendment applies to insurrections, not just wars.

                  Any attempt to stop the function of government by force is an insurrection, including the Whiskey Rebellion, the Civil War, and Jan 6.