• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

US judge strips insurrectionist of his public office for violating the 14th amendment!

As for the suit against Griffin, Mathew first found that Jan. 6 met all the definitions of an insurrection in that it was an “(1) assemblage of persons, (2) acting to prevent the execution of one or more federal laws, (3) for a public purpose, (4) through the use of violence, force, or intimidation by numbers.” And he noted that during the trial that followed Trump’s second impeachment trial, one of his own lawyers candidly described Jan. 6 as a “violent insurrection.”

This powerful passage from Mathew’s ruling is key: “The mob ultimately achieved what even the Confederates never did during the Civil War: They breached the Capitol building and seized the Capitol grounds, forcing the Vice President and Congress to halt their constitutional duties and flee to more secure locations.”


 
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