A resurfaced video shows Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) unveiling a plan for Congress to implement “civil war conditions” and disqualify former President Donald Trump if he wins the November presidential election.
According to Legal Insurrection, Raskin’s comments were given in February during an appearance at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling that individual states could not prohibit Trump from appearing on the ballot by using the 14th Amendment.
The Maryland Democrat claimed that if the Supreme Court ruled that states could not remove Trump from the ballot, then Congress would have to act to disqualify the former president from a second term in the White House.
“The court is not going to save us,” Raskin said. “And so that means the only thing that really works is people in motion amending the Constitution.” The congressman also claimed that the protections included in the Constitution can “slip away from you very quickly.”
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“And the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which they’re just disappearing with a magic wand, as if it doesn’t exist, even though it could not be clearer what it’s stating,” Raskin said. “And so 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.”
Raskin then suggested that there would be “civil war conditions” and that Congress would “need bodyguards for everybody.” The Democrat lawmaker claimed that civil war conditions and bodyguards would be necessary because the Supreme Court justices “simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great Fourteenth Amendment means.”
According to The Post Millennial, Raskin suggested that Congress could take steps to disqualify Trump following the November election, even with the possibility of “civil war conditions” in the United States.
In response to Raskin’s resurfaced comments, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) told The Federalist, “Congressman Raskin continues to stoke the flames of division in this country through his use of incendiary language aimed at his political opponents, and once again proves the hypocrisy of leftists like him who slander conservatives in an attempt to mask progressives’ proclivity towards violence which has been on full display in cities and college campuses across America in recent times.”
