Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.) announced plans to prevent former President Donald Trump from taking office on January 20, 2025 if reelected by invoking the 14th Amendment.
Raskin on Feb. 17 said Democrats must prepare for civil war and station bodyguards for all of them ahead of invoking the 14th Amendment to deny Trump the presidency, and blamed the Supreme Court for refusing to rule on whether the former president committed an “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021.
“They want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions,” Raskin said at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
Jamie Raskin the rascal states they plan on using the 14th amendment on January 6, 2025, to keep Trump out of office if he wins the election. pic.twitter.com/1BAH6gJUpN
— Merissa Hansen (@merissahansen17) August 5, 2024
“All because the nine Justices…who have not many cases to look at every year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection, simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great 14th Amendment means,” he said in the resurfaced clip.
The Supreme Court in March unanimously ruled that states don’t have the constitutional authority to remove Trump from the 2024 election ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows unilaterally removed him from their respective state ballots citing the 14th Amendment.
Joe Biden at the time even praised their unconstitutional actions before the Supreme Court overturned them.
The Supreme Court ruled the Constitution “makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates.”
“States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the court concluded.
By the way, the Supreme Court’s UNANIMOUS ruling that states cannot kick Trump off the ballot is also a stunning rebuke to this very embarrassing column from a supposed constitutional expert.https://t.co/PD1EfZQhk3 pic.twitter.com/CKV8pwqeJz
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) March 4, 2024
Now Raskin is proposing Congress exercise its constitutional authority to pass legislation declaring that Trump committed an “insurrection” on January 6, therefore disqualifying him from taking office under the 14th Amendment.
But even CNN following the Supreme Court’s ruling admitted that such a legislative effort would be “highly unlikely” to succeed.
But that constitutional technicality doesn’t appear to stop Democrats like Raskin from trying to deny Trump the presidency.
Notably, in the weeks prior to the SCOTUS ruling, The Atlantic asserted that Democrats should refuse to certify the 2024 election in the case of a Trump victory should the Supreme Court allow him to remain on the ballot.
Alex Jones sounded the alarm about Raskin’s extreme rhetoric during his Monday show:
BREAKING VIDEO: Congressman Raskin Publicly Announces Plan To Overthrow Supreme Court And Trigger "Civil War" pic.twitter.com/OYjvHM5vjT
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 5, 2024
Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller also weighed in on X, claiming, “I believe this is called a criminal conspiracy to commit election interference,”
That’s a crazy thing for him to say
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 5, 2024
“That’s a crazy thing for him to say,” agreed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Raskin’s unhinged remarks also signal a tacit acknowledgement that Trump has the electoral edge and is more likely to win the 2024 election than Joe Biden — or in this case, presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.
Importantly, even though hundreds of individuals have been arrested and jailed for their actions on January 6, not a single person, including Trump, has been charged with inciting an “insurrection” on January 6.
Watch Raskin’s full remarks:
