All who were involved in the attempted coup should be expelled

[634-5789]

[Haggard Celine]

1. Agreed!

[True Dough]

2. She's right,

you know.

[raccoon]

3. Preach it, sister! Nt

[Sherman A1]

4. Expelled and then tried for conspiracy

If found guilty sent off to Gitmo as terrorists.

[abqtommy]

5. + 100 I totally agree. nt

[Doodley]

6. It needs every Democratic lawmaker to yell it from the rooftops.

And keep yelling it until election day, just as Trump yelled "Emails, emails, emails, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi."

[bucolic_frolic]

7. How do we get from here to there?

[Harker]

8. I'd go beyond that to include

the facilitators and whitewashers.

[KS Toronado]

21. The white-washers appear to be every reQublicOn who

voted against impeachment & Jan 6th committee and those who still support the BIG LIE & Der orange Fuhrer.
Almost the entire R party, we need some good catchphrases for them going into the midterms........
"Whitewashers Lie", "Socialism over Fascism", any ideas?

[Harker]

23. Yes... lots of empty seats.

It's not particularly catchy, but I sometimes think of them as the "amoral minority."

Maybe, "murderous, depraved, seditious, hypocritical whiners?"

[2naSalit]

9. Absolutely!

[bucolic_frolic]

10. In a lame duck session

of Congress, where the majority would become the minority in the next Congress, could the majority expel traitors permanently and thus maintain its majority status in the next Congress until and unless those seats were filled by special election or appointments?

I would say yes to that, and I'm sure Republicans would have no hesitation in exercising that right if the shoe were on the other foot.

[malaise]

11. Let me make this pellucidly clear

It was a failed coup, not an attempted coup. The institutions held firm. Consequences must be severe and even more so for those who took the oath of office.

I am profoundly against the death penalty, but I am having second thoughts about punishment for their dear leader.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. indeed. I don't think Garland is up to it though. We'll see what the Committee concludes sometime

year? Then it's up to DOJ.

[malaise]

18. So glad you wrote this

We'll see what the Committee concludes sometime (this or next) year? Then it's up to DOJ.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. I'm losing faith Malaise. This coup is so blatantly obvious and it seems as if the nation, and most

of the media is just oblivious. In GOP's case of course, it's intentional because they know that handled better, it would have succeeded. The moment demands accountability, not just a "report" like after 9-11 where the war machine got to do whatever the hell they wanted to. Real accountability means indictments, strong prosecution and penalties that provide a real deterrent for this ever happening again. The penalties so far are not deterrents.

[malaise]

26. What I find even more disturbing is the way M$Greedia continues to

repeat his lies and accusations. At what point do they stop giving him and his cronies airtime?

[Evolve Dammit]

28. truth

[nebby70]

13. ... weren't a dozen congress men removed after the civil war...

... because they supported the confederacy and refused to recognize Lincoln as president????....

... maybe I need more coffee -- but how is 1/6 and this stuff different???

(okay, there's no backbones available in DC anymore; but other than that????)

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Great questions. It seems the 1/6 Commission is the only hope, but I have a bad feeling nothing

will be done with the FBI/ DOJ we have. Hope I'm wrong.

[MiHale]

14. But instead...a sternly worded letter will probably have to suffice.

[blueinredohio]

16. SHOULD is the operative word.

But will they? I don't see it happening.

[Buckeyeblue]

19. I don't know that we have any laws to support that but it seems a punishment that fits the crime

But I think a long prison sentence would be appropriate. I also think there should be some sort of law passed that prevents them from being able to receive a pardon for this particular crime.

[mopinko]

27. there is. used after the civil war.

someone will have the cite, i dont remember.

[Danascot]

29. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution

Likewise, Representative Cori Bush of Missouri said on Twitter that the House must “investigate and expel members of Congress who helped incite the deadly insurrection on our Capitol.”

Bush had actually introduced a House resolution for this purpose just days after the attack. “There is no place in the people’s House for these heinous actions,” she said at the time, referring to “members who attempted to disenfranchise voters and incited this violence.”

“I firmly believe,” she went on, “that these members are in breach of their sworn Oath of Office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. They must be held accountable.”

They weren’t. There was simply no appetite, among House leadership, for such drastic and decisive action. There still isn’t. But it was a serious demand, and we should take it seriously.

Bush’s resolution rests on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which cleared Congress in 1866 and was ratified in 1868:

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.

In plain English, Congress has the power and authority to expel from office any constitutional officer who engages in sedition and takes up arms against the Constitution of the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/opinion/jan-6-congress-republicans.html

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. expelled, then tried, and then if need be, executed.

Treason is the one crime that I still support capital punishment for, as much as I hate it otherwise.

[brooklynite]

22. AOC can introduce the resolution anytime she wants.

[Mr. Ected]

25. If this was the message of the media instead of their mealy-mouthed both sider bullshit

Perhaps we could avoid another day like January 6th.

The media, not the government and not the people, are driving this conversation, or lack thereof.

[FakeNoose]

30. The House can do this RIGHT NOW

They don't have to wait for Dept. of Justice or the Attorney General.

Do it - expel them now!