(01-08-2021, 10:31 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(01-08-2021, 08:55 PM)mikesez Wrote: Insurrection has a specific definition.
Procedures described in the Constitution are constitutional, even if you disagree with why they might use the procedure.
It is sad, but normal for politicians to get arrested.  Remember Tom DeLay? What about our local legend Corrine Brown?
Insurrections are outside the law and the Constitution. A protestor shouts at a lawmaker that they should change their vote. A protestor uses their voice to demand that a lawmaker act as described in the Constitution to remove a President or other officer who has abused power.  An insurrectionist assaults the lawmaker to prevent them from voting.  I'll say it 100 more times to you if I need to.
It's amazing how dense you people get.

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I'm always entertained when you pretend to know everything about everything even when it's glaringly obvious you just Google'd your answer.

You really should be more selective in which topics you choose when you take that [BLEEP] stance because it's easy for you to look like a jerk and an idiot. You always do this. You conflate different aspects of different things so that if one point is correct then you think all your points are correct. It isn't a platform for creating and organizing insurrection. Do you have an example? Was a lawmaker assaulted during all of this anyway? You're using insurrection because it's a buzzword for leftists. What you saw at the capital was a less violent version of a BLM riot from the summer.

I didn't say arresting the President would have been insurrection because he was arrested. I called it that because it would have been based evidence conjured by political opponents for the purpose of overturning a lawfully elected official. The arrest would have been the forcible removal of the President. You're correct in that it wouldn't have been by-the-book definition, but you also can't use the word as a catchall for what you saw at the capital.

Yes lawmakers were assaulted.  They had to run away with gas masks. They felt their lives were in danger. Maybe that's not exactly assault per the US Code, but certainly a crime was committed against the lawmakers.

The Constitution doesn't say the House can't conjure evidence for an impeachment hearing. If 67 senators think conjured evidence works, voila, it works. But, the Constitution does say the Vice President can't conjure new electoral votes. The votes can only come from the states.  It does say that you can't just strongarm your way into the building and become a Senator.

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