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Mary Papenfuss·Trends Reporter, HuffPost
Fri, December 11, 2020, 8:30 PM CST
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) has called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to bar 126 GOP representatives from the House, arguing that their support for the failed, baseless Texas lawsuit seeking to hijack the p**********l e******n violated the Constitution.
The Texas suit, supported by 17 other state attorneys general, was rejected Friday by the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump had attempted to join the self-serving suit, which sought to jettison v**es in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, whose v**ers chose President-elect Joe Biden.
Pascrell accused the House members who signed an amicus brief supporting the action — including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — of violating the Constitution by seeking to nullify Americans’ v**es and instead choose a “dictator.” He cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted after the Civil War and designed to keep t*****rs out of government.
The section prohibits anyone who had gone to war against the union or given aid and comfort to the nation’s enemies from running for federal or state office.
The Pennsylvania brief responding to the Texas lawsuit referred to its “s*******s abuse of the judicial process.”
Pascrell said in a tweet accompanied by a statement on Friday: “Today I’m calling on House leaders to refuse to seat any Members trying to overturn the e******n and make Donald Trump an unelected dictator.”
The “text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in r*******n against the United States,” he tweeted. “Trying to overturn a democratic e******n and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that.”
Pascrell was quoted in his statement as saying: “Stated simply, the men and women who would act to tear the United States Government apart cannot serve as Members of the Congress.”
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I doubt she has the power to do that. Even if she does, she's smart enough not to try it.
Her position as Speaker is shaky....AOC is going to unseat her one way or another.