Marxist-Raised Raskin Proposes Starting Civil War by Denying Trump Election Eligibility

“Firebrand Leftist Jamie Raskin Said Congress Must ‘Disqualify’ Trump, Predicted ‘Civil War Conditions’,” The Federalist reported Tuesday. “In a video clip making the rounds Monday on social media, the far left firebrand laments what he characterizes as a lazy U.S. Supreme Court interfering with the Democratic Party’s plan to interfere with the 2024 election.”

Raskin is complaining that the justices won’t do the Democrats’ dirty work for them.

Per SCOTUSblog, the high court wouldn’t agree to let Special Counsel Jack Smith leapfrog “a federal appeals court [before judgment and] weigh in [on] whether former President Donald Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.” That’s especially prudent considering that Smith isn’t even a legally appointed counsel (per The Wall Street Journal commentary, “Federal prosecutors must be duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate. He fails both tests.”)

“And so [the court] want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on Jan. 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified,” Raskin said in a book store panel discussion last February that’s gaining renewed attention now. “And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions all because nine justices — not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not much work to do, have a huge staff, great protection — simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great 14th Amendment means.”

Actually, with no dissents to a brief, unsigned order that simply states, “The petition for writ of certiorari before judgment is denied,” Raskin can’t say “not all of them.” It may be a good indicator that even the court’s “progressives” think Democrat radicals are treading dangerous waters. As for the 14^th Amendment, he was referring to Section 3:

“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.”

But Donald Trump hasn’t been convicted of anything, has he? Perhaps this will help drive home the foolish evil of “due process later” for him. Expediting an immunity denial ruling could result in Trump becoming ineligible to hold office before the election, which is what Raskin and the radicals want, in essence, having the courts absolve mob inciters like him of accountability and mass public wrath.

It’s curious, how the most strident voices hiding behind the “our democracy” lie want to deny a voting choice to the half of the country that opposes their politics, and have that dictated by the courts, leaving the representatives of the people out of the loop.

Raskin wants to impose rule by Democrats, and those of us who disagree don’t get a say. He doesn’t think that will be a catalyst for that “civil war” he’s trying to start. And how is the rhetoric he’s employing to stir that pot less incendiary than what Donald Trump said before, during, and after January 6? Millions of Americans don’t believe the parroted media narrative that questioning the results of the election is “baseless.” They see that the January 6 Committee left out key evidence, and that the Department of Justice/FBI has been politicized against traditional Americans and “conservative values.”

It’s revealing that Raskin is saying out loud what less vocal Democrats are thinking—because they don’t all represent “safe” districts and still need to keep up more moderate appearances. Defeating his Republican challenger 211,842 to 47,965 in Maryland District 8’s 2022 election, Raskin feels free to say whatever he wants and count on a local electorate stupid enough to continue ceding power to, let’s face it, a Marxist weasel who daily demonstrates the rotten fruit doesn’t fall far from the corrupt tree.

“Progressive Congressman Defends Father’s Soviet Ties,” Accuracy in Media reported in 2017. Marcus Raskin, founder of the Marxist-promoting Institute for Policy Studies, was reportedly instrumental “in arranging conferences with Soviet officials during the Cold War, for the purpose of undermining then-President Ronald Reagan’s anti-communist policies.”

Unsurprisingly, Raskin is a rabid agent of Soviet-style citizen disarmament, leading, again unsurprisingly, to Giffords gun prohibitionists to describe him as “a passionate critic of our nation’s lax gun laws and one of the most prominent gun safety champions on Capitol Hill.”

And also unsurprisingly, While he’s the one bemoaning civil war if he succeeds in denying half the country its choice for president, he dismisses the Second Amendment being an ultimate check against tyranny as “a constitutional joke“:

“My friend from Texas, Mr. Roy, advances the so-called insurrectionist view of the second amendment, that the second amendment’s purpose is to give the people the right to overthrow or fight our government or fight the police or threaten armed resistance if the government is somehow being unfair or unjust,” Raskin said. “This reading is totally and absolutely absurd and flies in the face of the place text of the constitution.”

We know he’s a liar when he describes the representative of citizens he would crush if he could as a “friend.” As for the rest, any number of Founding Fathers would disagree with him. Including committed Federalist Alexander Hamilton, who acknowledged in his advocacy for the Constitution:

“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…”

Red Jamie would leave us with no resource left.

Jamie Raskin is saying that congress will STOP Trump from taking office even if he’s chosen by the voters.

This is extremely dangerous. Every Democrat needs to be on the record about this immediately. pic.twitter.com/9IwRoGrrQu

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 5, 2024

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.