The Supreme Court didn't dig into the weeds of the entire insurrection debate, but one obvious issue with the various efforts to remove Trump from the ballot in various states was that insurrection had been left entirely to Democrat state officials to define.
"Congress will have to try and act," Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told Axios.
Raskin suggested the bill would be paired with a resolution declaring Jan. 6 an "Insurrection" and that those involved "Engaged in insurrection."
For now, in a GOP House, the bill is mostly virtue signaling, but tellingly Raskin is not so much trying to define insurrection as trying to define J6 as an insurrection.
The Raskin bill conveniently defines J6 as an insurrection and carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump.
It does not however define what an insurrection is making the whole exercise into a bill that specifically exists to block a particular candidate from being able to take office on grounds that would be unlikely to apply to his own party.
"An individual described in this subsection is an individual who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or has given aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/house-dems-prep-an-insurrection-bill-barring-trump-from-taking-office/
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