For context, section 3 of the 14th amendment states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. Historical argument to understand when the Amendment was drafted is essential. When Section Three of the 14th Amendment was drafted, an insurrection involved:
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An assemblage
“A combination, or conspiracy by which different individuals are united in one common purpose." by Justice Benjamin Curtis, 1861 - Charge to Grand Jury—Neutrality Laws and Treason (Curtis), 30 F. Cas. at 1025, taken from the prior paper.
"If a body of people conspire and meditate an insurrection to resist or oppose the execution of any statute of the United States by force, they are only guilty of a high misdemeanor; but if they proceed to carry such intention into execution by force, they are guilty of the treason of levying war, and the quantum of force employed neither lessens nor increases the crime; whether by 100 or 1,000 persons is wholly immaterial." - Justice Samuel Chase, 1800, Case of Fries, 9 F. Cas. at 931.
2) Resisting any law or interfering with the course of a government proceeding
"An insurrection against the United States required resistance to “any statute” or “some public law of the United States.” Curtis reminded a grand jury: “The law does not distinguish between a purpose to prevent the execution of one, or several, or all laws.” An insurrection could be directed at a legislature as well as at executive officials. William Rawle declared an effort to “coerce repeal of a general law” to be “an overt act of levying war.” Justice Field’s opinion in Greathouse held that any effort to “coerce \[the\] conduct” of government constituted an insurrection."
3) By force or intimidating
"the most comprehensive definition of levying war against the king, or against the United States, which I have seen, requires an assemblage of men, ready to act, and with an intent to do some treasonable act, and armed in warlike manner, or else assembled in such numbers, as to supersede the necessity of arms." - Justice Marshall, 1807.
4) For a public purpose
"Judge John Kane’s charge to the jury spoke of “insurrections to redress by force national grievances; or to reform real or imaginary evils of a public nature.”" Judge John Kane, 1800, \*Case of Fries
Clearly, Jan 6 meets all of these:
There was an assemblage.
Hundreds of people breached the Capitol Building and thousands trespassed on federal land.
There was clear resistance to federal law.
The trespassers intended to disrupt the proceedings mandated by the Electoral Count Act.
Anderson v. Griswold states, “substantial evidence in the record showed that the mob’s unified purpose was to hinder or prevent Congress from counting the electoral votes as required by the Twelfth Amendment and from certifying the 2020 presidential election.”
The resistance made extensive use of force.
Many in the mob engaged in crimes of violence or threatened crimes of violence. The Colorado Supreme Court stated, “\[T\]he mob repeatedly and violently assaulted police officers who were trying to defend the Capitol.” Calls to “Hang Mike Pence” did not suggest an attempt to achieve goals by rational persuasion.
For a public purpose
The public purpose was resisting a "stolen" election.
Clearly then, J6 was an insurrection. Notably as well, section 3 makes no reference to have been having found guilty of such a crime of insurrection. As such, given an insurrection happened, and given the congress did not vote to lift the restriction, it should have been up to each individual state to decide if Trump's name appeared on the ballot.
Question
You seriously think our retirees are to blame for the relegation? Retirees started all those pointless wars, funded them, fought them, and lost? Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, and now Iran? Retirees brought in millions of immediate retirees from MENA countries to plunder the German social security? That was the work of Murksel, and all reputable historians say so! Were they only elected by retirees? Did retirees orchestrate the completely failed energy transition that leads to deindustrialization, unemployment, and poverty? At the same time, they deliberately destroyed our power plants and unnecessarily started an economic war with Russia with now dozens of sanction packages?
