Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, recently made controversial statements regarding the potential disqualification of Donald Trump from office, even if Trump were to win the 2024 presidential election.
Democrats have propped themselves up as bastions for election integrity and protectors of democracy, yet Raskin’s latest commentary tells a very different story.
Raskin suggested that Congress could invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from taking office, regardless of the election outcome or will of the people.
“What can be put into the constitution can slip away from you very quickly, and the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which they’re just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn’t exist, even though it couldn’t be clearer what it’s stating.
And so, they want to kick it to Congress so it’s going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified, and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil conditions, all because the nine justices, not all of them, these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection, simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great Fourteenth Amendment means,” Raskin noted.
The suggestion of using constitutional measures to prevent a candidate from taking office, even after winning an election, raises significant questions about the balance between constitutional interpretation and the will of the voters.
