WASHINGTON, DC – The January 6th committee has become something far less of an actual House committee and something more along the lines of a partisan circus or even witch hunt, with Democrats at the helm looking to pin their political opponents to the proverbial stakes suspended above the flames.

Ohio-based Republican Rep. Jim Jordan recently called out the nefarious motivations of the Democratic party, citing their use of this January 6 committee as a means to exploitatively cudgel Republicans, while very real and prevalent issues to impacting Americans who’ve undoubtedly moved on from the January 6th fiasco.

“They’re trying to pack the court. This committee, the January 6th committee, altered evidence and presented to the American people as if it were true. And they accuse us of being a danger to our democracy? Mr. Gaetz was right, we have got a border that is complete chaos. We have $6 gas in California, $4 dollar gas everywhere else in the country, we have crime at record levels in every major urban area in this nation. And we have an inflation problem that’s at a 40-year high.”

But what was most notable in Rep. Jordan’s lambasting of Democrats and the January 6 committee was his assertion of what the true endgame is with Democrats driving the January 6 narrative, alleging that the political theater is merely a means to keep former President Donald Trump off of the 2024 ticket.

“And this committee has more contemporary solutions for a purely political reason. I think the whole committee’s purely political – designed to do one thing, keep President Trump off the ballot in 2024.”

Rep. Jordan’s assertions that Democrats have been plotting to keep Trump off the 2024 ticket isn’t farfetched in the least, as a January 2022 op-ed from the Boston Herald noted that had been, “exploring how a post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution might be used to render former President Trump ineligible from holding office again.”

That post-Civil War constitutional amendment in question is of course Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which outlines that elected officials who’ve “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same” are barred from holding office in the future.

Reportedly, roughly a dozen Democratic lawmakers have entertained this notion – either publicly or in private conversation – that somehow Section 3 of the 14th Amendment could be wielded so as to keep Trump out of the 2024 presidential race.

However, the likelihood of that coming to fruition – at least with respect to weaponizing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment – is fairly slim. The stunt was already attempted against Rep. Madison Cawthorn and failed, and is also currently being flung against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, where it is also expected to fail.

As we reported back in March here at Red Voice Media, the group Free Speech For People already demonstrated with the Rep. Cawthorn suit (which they’re also running the active suit against Rep. Greene) that mere strong disdains for political opponents intertwined with conjecture doesn’t amount to someone being an insurrectionist.

 

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