Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has suggested that Democrats are planning to block the certification of the 2024 election results if President Donald Trump wins.
Raskin, who sat on the anti-Trump January 6 Committee, discussed overturning the election results in order to supposedly “save democracy” if Democrats don’t get the outcome they want.
Raskin raised the alarming scenario in resurfaced comments from February.
He argued that Congress would disqualify Trump after the November election, even if the 45th president wins the presidential race.
The Democrat described the action as a necessary response to the Supreme Court’s refusal to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
In March, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that individual states cannot enforce the so-called “insurrection ban.”
Democrats had pushed the ban in a desperate attempt to keep Trump out of power.
Anticipating the court’s pro-Trump ruling, Raskin told a crowd at a Washington D.C. bookstore that Congress would have to take drastic action.
“They want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified,” he said.
“And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions.”
Raskin’s comment about “Trump mobs” is clearly an allusion to the protests on January 6 2021.
Democrats have long accused Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
However, in the scenario Raskin dreams of, the Trump “mobs” would be the ones protesting an election being overturned.
Raskin preemptively blamed the Supreme Court for creating “civil war conditions” by refusing to rule the way he and other Democrats wanted.
“Not all of them, but 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,” he complained.
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The chaos that Raskin welcomes was rejected by the Supreme Court in its 9-0 ruling.
The justices explicitly warned that attempting to enforce Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment after an election “could nullify the votes of millions and change the election result.”
“Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos—arriving at any time or different times, up to and perhaps beyond the Inauguration,” the court ruled.
Democrats have already gone to incredible extremes to stop Trump from returning to power.
They have weaponized the law in an attempt to crush him.
He was almost assassinated a few weeks ago, and they’re back to calling him a threat to democracy.
This January, we may find out just how far Democrats are willing to go.
Is throwing out an election in the name of “democracy” too unhinged even for them?
https://slaynews.com/news/democrat-jamie-raskin-floats-plan-block-trumps-election-victory-save-democracy/
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