Pascrell accused the 126 Republicans who supported the Texas lawsuit of \u201cinsurrection or rebellion\u201d – or at least, of\u00a0supporting \u201cinsurrection or rebellion\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0– against the Constitution.<\/p>\n As Jonathan Turley details below,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>it appears that Rep. Bill Pascrell (D., NJ) has a serious problem with Republicans going to court.<\/p>\n We recently discussed<\/a>\u00a0Pascrell\u2019s absurd effort to disbar roughly two dozen Republican lawyers for challenging the results of the 2020 election<\/strong>. Now Pascrell is declaring that 120 House Republicans signing a \u201cFriend of the Court brief\u201d (or\u00a0amicus brief<\/a>)\u00a0is tantamount to supporting a rebellion against the United States and that they should be blocked from taking their seats in Congress. I previously denounced Pascrell for his\u00a0\u201cdangerous form of demagoguery.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>This latest call shows the demagoguery has\u00a0reached a level of utter delusion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n From the outset of the Texas lawsuit, I stated that it was virtually guaranteed to fail on standing.\u00a0 It did fail last night. However, courts are where we take cases alleging such injuries. Tens of millions of American believe that the election was not fair, including many Democratic voters.\u00a0 Roughly 70 percent of Republican voters believe the election was stolen. Such challenges and concerns are brought to the courts where we can have disputes resolved without violence in a constitutional system.<\/p>\n Pascrell has long denounced political critics of destroying the Constitution based on his disagreement with their views.<\/strong>\u00a0 In the case of President Trump, he\u00a0called for impeachment in 2019<\/a>\u00a0on such undefined grounds as \u201cdisgrac[ing] his office and our nation beyond measure.\u201d<\/p>\n Rather than welcome such review, Democrats have launched a scorched earth campaign, including an abusive campaign of harassment and abuse by the Lincoln Project.<\/strong>\u00a0These efforts notably began shortly after Biden was declared the presumptive winner of the election and before any challenges were actually ruled upon by the courts.<\/p>\n Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also fueled such reckless rhetoric, declaring that the Republicans are \u201csubverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy<\/strong>\u00a0which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n Pascrell\u2019s move against his colleagues mirrors language in the response of Pennsylvania\u2019s Attorney General Josh Shapiro\u00a0calling the Texas lawsuit \u201cseditious.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Seeking judicial review is the antithesis of sedition or rebellion. It is working within our constitutional system for a legal opinion on the merits of a challenge. These litigants have complied with court orders, as has President Trump.<\/p>\n On Twitter, Pascrell declared<\/p>\n \u201cStated simply, the men and women who would act to tear the United States Government apart cannot serve as Members of the Congress.<\/strong>\u00a0These lawsuits seeking to obliterate public confidence in our democratic system by invalidating the clear results of the 2020 presidential election undoubtedly attack the text and the spirit of the Constitution, which each Member swears to support and defend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2020-12-12_8-54-42.jpg?itok=E4_a_201\")
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