After President-elect Donald Trump leaned on dissident Republican U.S House members and strong-armed the reelection of Speaker Mike Johnson, congressional Democrats — and Republicans — marveled at Trump’s power and influence.
When the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Colorado could not prevent Trump from appearing on that state’s primary, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House Jan. 6 Committee, remained defiant. On CNN, Raskin said: “I disagree with that interpretation, just because the other parts of the Fourteenth Amendment are self-executing. … I am working with a number of my colleagues … to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Just days ago, the former president of the New York City Bar Association co-authored a…
