Is it Time for the Courts to Weigh in on Mitch McConnell?
Mitch McConnell has made a career out of dismantling the Constitution.
He is so proficient in his work, in fact, that he has successfully upended the shape of the Senate itself, and its relationship with both the Executive and Judicial Branches.
Take his work on SCOTUS.
There is still a viscerally acerbic response felt by many when the name Merrick Garland resurfaces. Mitch McConnell infamously ripped apart the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court when he refused to bring President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee to the floor. Adding insult to injury, he blamed Obama for blocking Merrick’s hearing saying that President Obama nominated him “not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for the purpose of the election.”
Or see his work in Congress.
McConnell has refused to bring over 300 bills to the Senate floor. 275 of which were bipartisan. There’s a picture of them below. In just a couple of years, Senate Majority Leader McConnel was able to grind 2 of the 3 branches of government to a halt. And he wouldn’t stop there.
In the final play of his hat trick, Mitch McConnell openly stated that in relation to the Senate impeachment trial, “Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can.”
And there you have it. Every Constitutional thread holding together the balance of powers between the 3 branches of government had been burned and broken by Mitch McConnell. And while all eyes are on the threat that is coming from the White House, we need to make sure we don’t lose sight of the threat that is Mitch McConnell.
More than that — we need to get McConnel out of office.
There is a Constitutionally outlined process by which a Senator can be impeached; however, without control of the Senate, it is unlikely that the Democrats would be able to successfully impeach the Senate Majority Leader. There is another way to prevent McConnell from further damaging the Constitution without going through Congress, though. We take him to court.
This isn’t the first time that traitors to the Constitution occupied the highest ranks of the government. After the Civil War, legislation was passed to ensure that those that committed acts of rebellion against the Constitution while in office would be unable to re-occupy their seat.
More specifically, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment reads:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
What this means is that Mitch McConnell can be brought to court under the Fourteenth Amendment for engaging in insurrection against the Constitution. And if the courts rule against McConnell, he will not be able to seek re-election in 2020. Or ever.
A Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell has led a violence-free, but successful insurrection against the Constitution of the United States. And he has dealt it significant damage.
It will take a member of the government to take a stand and launch a case against McConnell for his action of insurrection against the Constitution of the United States. It will take a circuit court system that hasn’t been packed with MAGA picked judges to find him guilty. And it will take a legal team willing to go the distance against McConnell and the Trump Administration to get the job done before the next election.
With the Senate and the White House currently in collaboration, though, it might be time to have the courts weigh in.
