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Open Letter To Congress on Jan6: Follow Your Oath and Enforce the 14th Amendment! [1]
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Date: 2025-01-05
To Members of Congress Who have Taken the Oath to Defend the Constitution
Cc: Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court Justices, Democratic Governors Association President,
As a citizen of the United States with full and equal rights and responsibilities conferred under the Constitution, I call upon the Senate and the House refuse to certify the election on January 6th, because Donald J. Trump is ineligible to hold the office of President of the United States under the plain language of the 14th Amendment.
Donald J.Trump is the only sitting president in American history to have led and incited a deadly insurrection, sent fraudulent electors, organized a plot to interfere with the free and fair election, and undermined the peaceful transfer of power as required of the President under the Constitution.
It is a travesty, a mockery of the Constitution and Rule of Law if Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025.
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution, passed in the wake of the Civil War, prohibits insurrectionists who have taken the oath to defend the Constitution from ever holding elected office again.
The Supreme Court, in its audacious ruling which portended granting Trump immunity from prosecution, stated that a single state could not keep Trump off its primary ballot, despite the fact that Colorado adjudicated and after due process, found Trump had committed insurrection and was ineligible to seek office under the 14th Amendment.
The Supreme Court then obstructed the administration of justice that would have definitively found Donald J. Trump to not only have incited and led insurrection, but responsible for the deaths that occurred as a result of the insurrection and attempted coup. Others have been executed for having done far less.
Instead of applying the plain language of the 14th Amendment and the Rule of Law, the Supreme Court determined that enforcing the Constitution (be it bribery, emoluments, treason or insurrection) should be a matter of politics – which party happens to be in power and can summon the 67 votes in the Senate.
If Justice Roberts administers the oath of office to Donald J. Trump on January 20th, who has said he would tear up the Constitution, and has already stated he would ignore the nation’s treaties and obligations as well as its laws, and likely would not follow the rulings of the Supreme Court that did not support his interests because he alone is above the law, it makes a mockery of law and the Constitution.
Donald J. Trump would be an illegitimate occupier of the presidency. Any action he takes or appointment he makes, or executive order he signs would be illegitimate and the United States would be seen as having an illegitimate leader with whom no state or official could negotiate with any confidence.
Karen Rubin
New York
See:
Election 2024: Stop the Steal
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