Yep. They shouldn't be so fucking scared of doing something this drastic when the consequences of letting these people off will mean they try more and more and it'll be the Dems being ousted as a equally powered party in perpetuity as the GOP grabs power. This is Republicans doing the literal opposite of their job and at any other career fundamentally going against the mandate of the job would result in losing it. Politicians should be subject to the same requirements.
Like at this point any Dem politician watching this shit & seeing their "colleagues" stay silent as bigoted mobs stalk politicians not "getting with the program" I have to believe is being deliberately facetious if they continue their "come together" nonsense. They're making a conscious choice to gaslight the rest of us at that point.
Pretty much this.
Requires 2/3 of each house to reinstate, checking what it takes to remove because that's more vague. He's invoking section 3 to be specific, but it doesn't have any explicit requirements other than proving the behavior(which historically was being a governering member of the confederacy)
this doesn't stop the Republicans from trying literally anything lol. We only have everything to gain by trying to make this happen
Only if there's a valid basis for the exclusion. The case that Pascrell cites in his public statement says as much. And there isn't one here.
Yes, they need to make an example out of them and set precedence so that they know they will be consequences, and they could be even worse next time.
What I meant by that is that if people want revolution because they don't believe that necessary change is possible within our existing democratic institutions, then they should be thinking about revolution and not about stunts like this.
Awesome. Performative nonsense that doesn't hold a bunch of seditious chuds accountable and gives them the greenlight to push the envelope further and further.
