🤦🏻♀️ Via Kyle Cheney:
HAPPENING NOW: #Trump's lawyer is arguing to #Colorado Supreme Court that the #14thAmendment's 'insurrection clause' doesn't apply to the presidency.
He also says, in an aside, that the emoluments clause doesn't apply, noting that George Washington accepted a gift from France. 1/...
2/ Via @Brandi_Buchman:
ct says, there's sedition on 1 end of spectrum, maybe on other end we have levying war, but in-btw we have insurr & rebellion & we'd agree insur is sthing less than rebel'n
gessler: J6 was "closer to being a 3 hr riot"
(i always wonder here, if a lawmaker wd've died that day, wd these lawyers make same argumt?
Ct: how would you define insurr
Gessler: we can't define it, but to extent u push me, i wd say it requires mult considerations that go beyond what we had here
3/ @Brandi_Buchman:
There was AN ARSENAL OF GUNS BROUGHT TO NORTHERN VIRGINIA AT THE DIRECTION OF A MAN CONVICTED OF SEDITION BUT THEY DIDNT MAKE IT INTO THE CAPITOL SO THERE'S THAT I GUESS.
Gessler says because rioters used bike racks and flag poles it doesnt make it in insurrection.
And im ending it here. More later.
@GottaLaff How do these lawyers cope in the real world? @Brandi_Buchman
@GottaLaff The lot of them just nauseate me. @Brandi_Buchman
@AlliFlowers Same, and scare me silly @Brandi_Buchman
@AlliFlowers They're paid to be this way. And of course, some of them ARE this way. @Brandi_Buchman