Legal Landmines About January 6

This article in the Washington Post caught my eye this morning. Announcing that Hearings Begin as Trump Critics Attempt to Kick Him Off Ballots. What caught my eye wasn’t the headline but this paragraph:

Starting on Monday in Denver, a week-long hearing featuring witnesses and legal scholars will explore whether Jan. 6 qualified as an insurrection, which could bar Trump from the ballot in Colorado. On Thursday, the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether an obscure part of the Constitution might keep Trump off the ballot there. In coming weeks, courts around the country might hold similar proceedings.

First, I don’t think any legal proceeding is going to keep this decaying orange turd off of any ballot. I just don’t. But what grabs me and frosts my jib is that there’s going to be a hearing exploring whether or not what happened on January 6th qualifies as an insurrection.

Call me crazy, but if we’re going to legally try to parse what the world saw that day into a thumbs up or thumbs down on calling it an insurrecton than I say we’re already thumbs down on not only this process but our legal proceedings as a country.

Think for just a second. It shouldn’t take you that long. If some august body in a hearing determines that what happened on January 6th was not an insurrection it’s open season for all sorts of political mayhem and violence that, in my opinion, goes far beyond freedom of speech or freedom of assembly.

I get the impulse. We want to make sure we’re doing things the right way legally. That’s supposedly who we are. News Flash. We aren’t that anymore.

So, let’s get serious. We all wish some Senators had shown some backbone and convicted the guy after the Hosue impeached him. And when I say “we all” I mean a quite a few of those Senators who cowardly voted to acquit. That way we wouldn’t be dealing with this mess. I’m sure we’d be dealing with a different mess and will continue to do so until this decaying orange turd no longer breathes oxygen or we run out of lawyers willing to be thrown under the bus and not paid by their client.

If we have to adjudicate this I think we’ve lost more than the game. We’ve lost the playing field..