A pair of former Supreme Court law clerks came out with an opinion article in The Hill this week laying out how Congress ought to disqualify President-elect Donald Trump under the Insurrection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, for his role in inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The authors freely admitted this was all but guaranteed not to happen, and so far no Democratic member of Congress appears interested in taking up their cause — but the article triggered a round of outrage from pro-Trump commentators. Some went so far as to call this in itself an insurrection attempt, and demand the authors be arrested simply for suggesting it, in sarcasm to imply Trump's 2020 plot wasn't really an act of insurrection.
"You people are sick," wrote Eric Trump on X.
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"Real headline from the Hill," wrote far-right Trump ally and failed congressional candidate Laura Loomer. "Told you they would try this as a last ditch effort."
"Trump won the popular vote, every swing state, and the electoral college," wrote right-wing commentator Rogan "D.C. Draino" O'Handley. "The Hill is now plotting an insurrection to stop him. Disbar the authors of this article and send the FBI into their offices. That’s how it works right?"
"Oh, look. Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people. Threat to Democracy," wrote Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung.
"The former editors-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review & of the Yale Law Journal want Congress to engage in what would be among the most egregious abuses of power in the history of the republic by overturning a democratic election & blocking a duly-elected president from office," wrote former GOP House Foreign Affairs Committee investigator Jerry Dunleavy.
"This insane article basically boils down to 'yeah, all the legal attempts to stop Trump failed, but the January 6th committee said he's bad so we should do a coup to stop him.' Incredible," wrote Red State's Bonchie.
"Trump derangement syndrome on full display in then DC media echo chamber," wrote Log Cabin Republicans president Charles Moran.
