Democrat watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [CREW], directed by Noah Bookbinder, says it will file for injunctive relief in federal court preventing former President Doanld Trump for running for president. Bookbinder says there’s overwhelming evidence that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibiting anyone engaged in insurrection or rebellion from running for elected office. Bookbinder, a Stanford Law graduate, claims there’s overwhelming evidence that Trump engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. “The evidence that Trump engaged in insurrection is overwhelming,” Boodbinder said, knowing, the Jan. 6 House Select Committee is not a trier-of-fact. Only a jury of Trump’s peers can determine his culpability in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), Co-Chair of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, is also not a trier-of-fact.
Political hacks like Bookbinder use their nonprofit organizations to hide behind their extreme political bias. Bookbinder joins forces with the Never Trumper Crowd, saying and doing anything to prevent the former president from running in 2024. Bookbinder ignored the Seante’s Feb. 13, 2021 impeachment trial acquitting Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” At Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) tried to convince the Senate jury that Trump engaged in “incitement of insurrection.” Stinging from that defeat, House Democrats led by Trump enemy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) opened the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to do what the House impeachment hearing couldn’t do, charge Trump with insurrection. Bookbinder forgets that he’s not a judge or jury and cannot call his political bias against Trump “overwhelming evidence.”
Bookbinder claims his CREW nonprofit has overwhelming evidence that Trump committed insurrection against the United States. Cheney and other members of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee say Trump planned-and-orchestrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. “CREW believe you are barred from holding office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment because you engaged in insurrection against the government you swore to defend,” said Bookbinder, knows that no court has determined that Trump was part of any insurrection. Only the most biased, politically prejudiced Jan. House Select Committee thinks that Trump is guilty of insurrection. Trump never made it to the Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, forced to ride out the Capitol riots like everyone else. Democrat blamed Trump for not calling off the riot, despite the fact he had nothing to do with it. Democrat ask Trump to admit he planned the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Bookbinder isn’t in a position of adjudicating Trump’s alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Expressing his Democrat-biased opinion doesn’t mean he has any case under Section 3 of the 14th amendment. Only a trier-of-fact or a jury of Trump’s peers in federal court can determine any alleged role played in the Jan. 6 riots. “By supporting a violent mob to disrupt the transition of presidential power mandated by the Constitution after have sworn to defend the same, you made yourself ineligible to hold public office,” Bookbinder said. Bookbinder doesn’t have a legal judgment against Trump to make all his assertions about Trump violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Either the press is gullible or Bookbinder’s a good con artist, but Trump can’t be prevented from running unless he’s convicted in a court of law. Political hacks like Bookbinder make good headlines but nothing else.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy) or Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Il.) can rant-and-rave about Trump not running in 2024 but they must have a court judgment against Trump to stop him from running for president. Bookbinder’s CREW nonprofit disgraces itself with his worthless allegations that have no basis in fact. “Evidence that you engaged in insurrection as contemplated in the Fourteenth Amendment—including by mobilizing, inciting and aiding those attacking the Capitol—is overwhelming,” Bookbinder’s letter said to Trump. Bookbinder should be disbarred for his outrageous, unfounded accusations, obviously a Democrat hack trying to prevent Trump from running in 2024. But Bookbinder’s actions do nothing other than encourage Trump supporters to guarantee that he runs in 2024. Bookbinder would have a possible 14th Amendment challenge if Trump were convicted in federal court on insurrection.
Bookbinder likes to cite the case of Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin who was disqualified from running for elected office under the 14th Amendment. What Bookbinder forgets conveniently is that Couy Griffin was convicted of participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump has been tried-and-convicted by political hacks in the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and in Democrat nonprofits like CREW. Bookbinder failed earlier this year to prevent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) from running because no court had ever convicted her of participating in the insurrection. Political hacks like Bookbinder hide behind his nonprofits to advance a Democrat agenda, in this case preventing Trump from running in 2024. No question that the whole Jan. 6 House Select Committee is less concerned about ascertaining facts and more concerned about preventing Trump from running again.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
