Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) spoke on CNN’s “The Newsroom” Tuesday about the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that disqualified former President Donald Trump from voting. said SCOTUS punting.
Raskin said, “The court completely disagreed with this. They just said it wasn’t for them to figure it out. This is a judicial resolution under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. It’s not, but it’s up to Congress to enforce it. I disagree with that interpretation, just because other parts of the 14th Amendment are automatic. People can go to court and say something violates equal protection, even if there’s no federal law that allows it. But no matter what happens, the Supreme Court will I said it was up to Congress to act.”
He continued, “So I worked with many of my colleagues, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell, to establish a process by which a person who commits insurrection could be determined to be disqualified under Title III.” “We’re trying to reinstate the law that says we have to do that.” The 14th Amendment has already been passed, and the House of Representatives has already impeached Donald Trump for inciting and participating in an insurrection. So the House has already declared that, and the Senate also voted 57-43. The question is, will Speaker Mike Johnson allow this to come to the House floor?”
Mr. Raskin continued, “Clearly the Supreme Court did not want to take seriously the clear textual meaning of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, much less the original purpose of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. I didn’t want to deal with it,” he added. The idea was to keep people from federal jobs who had already proven themselves to be dishonest and untrustworthy. ”
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