US Code wrote:Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
14th Amendment Section 3 wrote: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.
Mirrim Webster wrote:Insurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or government.
It seems all three apply to various people, though due process is hardly complete.
Now two of the people who visited the capitol have been labled as insurrectionists, the only two that so far have tried to run for office after pleading guilty. Two suits were brought, the judges held them to be insurrectionists, and banned them from office. More have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy. If any of the hundreds of others who either have already plead guilty or are in progress of trial try to run for office, I expect the precedent to hold - barring innocent verdicts, which have been rare. If the others have not been judicially declared insurrectionists, it is because none have decided to run for office.
Do you believe these laws should not be in place? Insurrection, use of force, seditious conspiracy or whatever you call it, should be allowed to proceed?
I'm not sure where this should be, but likely not the Abortion thread...