Democrats have one last opportunity to stop Donald Trump from taking office, according to two liberal lawyers.
In an op-ed for The Hill, attorneys Evan Davis and David Schulte claim that "insurrectionist" Trump is disqualified from serving as president again.
Without a trace of irony, the lawyers are demanding that Democrats delegitimize Trump's victory when Congress meets to certify the election results on January 6th, 2025.
The scheme is based on the 1887 Electoral Count Act. This is the same law that was amended after the January 6th, 2021, riot to clarify that the vice president's role in certifying the results is only ceremonial.
Under the Act, Congress can object to electoral votes if 20% of each chamber signs a petition, the lawyers wrote for The Hill.
"If the objection is sustained by majority vote in each house, the vote is not counted and the number of votes required to be elected is reduced by the number of disqualified votes. If all votes for Trump were not counted, Kamala Harris would be elected president," they wrote.
The lawyers echo an argument that was previously made by Democrat Jamie Raksin (Md.) at the height of the failed anti-Trump lawfare campaign.
Raskin, at the time, suggested that Congress would have to delegitimize a Trump victory if the Supreme Court refused to block him from the ballot.
The justices ultimately ruled unanimously against an effort by Colorado to enforce the so-called "insurrection ban" in the 14th Amendment.
“They want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on Jan. 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified, and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions,” Raskin said at the time.
Raskin's trash talk has been quieted by Trump's resounding victory, however, which has left Democrats broken and demoralized.
Compared to his shocking 2016 victory, which was met with a protest movement, riots, and objections in Congress, Trump's epic comeback has resulted in little resistance so far, leaving just a handful of "election deniers" who refuse to face reality.
If Democrats want to start winning again, attempting to block Trump from office after he won the popular vote is surely a bad way to go about it.
Democrats must accept that voters rejected them, and that there are no magic words they can say to make Trump - and the people who support him - disappear.
