"The reason it's been dormant is because by 1876 essentially all former Confederates had received amnesty and we haven't seen anything like an Insurrection since then."
"One of Trump's most alarming and politically damaging comments is when he promises to pardon the January 6th insurrectionists."
"The text of course is not the only thing that matters... it's really not a close question that the drafters did intend to disqualify from the very highest office in the country individuals who engaged in insurrection."
"January 6, 2021, will never be forgotten. An infamous day in American history... Mega Republicans descended upon the capital engaged in an insurrection."
"The moment any actor in the government believes within their own person that a president engaged in an insurrection against the United States, they are duty bound constitutionally to defy all orders."
"President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection by inciting a violent mob to attack our Capitol and disenfranchise over 80 million people who voted against him."
"Did Donald Trump incite an insurrection on January 6th, 2021? Absolutely."
"Putin is a student of history, and he knows that no invasion can put down an insurrection unless the borders are closed."
"It's important to note that they did uphold our finding... that Donald Trump did engage in Insurrection."
"If it was a planned insurrection then they would have insurrected. That's how I view it."
"I'm frustrated that six months after a deadly insurrection breached the United States Capitol, we're still piecing together exactly what happened."
"The substantive standard is the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which says if you engage in insurrection or rebellion, or you give aid or comfort...that's the substantive standard."
"Democracy is sacred, and the highest court of this state has repeatedly recognized that no right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which as good citizens we must live."
"Democracy is in true danger. This was a coup attempt. It was an actual insurrection."
"I just want the record to reflect that the previous president of the United States supported an insurrection."
"What if this is not the insurrection? What does the insurrection look like?"
"The Insurrection is still going on though, isn't it? I mean, even the negotiations over the debt ceiling, that's still insurrectionists playing with fire."
"The attack on January 6th was a direct and predictable result of Mr. Trump's decision to use false claims of election fraud to overturn the election and to cling to power."
"This was a violent mob trying to overthrow American democracy."
"You can't be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American. Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters not only embrace political violence but they laugh about it at his rallies."
"Trump did not simply incite an insurrection because he once said the word 'fight.'"
"It's not insurrection to follow a constitutional process."
"Nancy Pelosi is behind what they call an insurrection on January 6th."
"This wasn't a group of tourists. This was an armed insurrection."
"Anyone who engaged in Insurrection or Rebellion is forbidden from holding any public office."
"People who launched an insurrection against the Constitution and the democratic form of government shouldn't be put back in charge of that government."
"If we allow insurrection against the United States with impunity, with no accountability, we are inviting it to happen again."
"January 6th and the lies that led to insurrection have put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk."
"If you're going to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power in a democracy, that's an insurrection."
"Our republic was birthed through insurrection."
"Insurrection can come in all shapes and sizes."
"It's as clear as day what Donald Trump did. He incited that violent mob to rush onto the Capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of Presidential Power."
"This must happen because the president is guilty of insurrection. He is no longer the president; he's a private citizen."
"An organized effort to get thousands of people to descend on the capital during the time when it is counting the votes... that isn't an Insurrection then nothing is."
"January 6 was an act of domestic terrorism incited by Donald Trump. His supporters who attacked the Capitol are terrorists."
"Mitt Romney, what happened today was an insurrection incited by the president of the United States."
"Maybe we'll get him on some conspiracy charges, but insurrection is really hard to prove."
"This is not a vanity exercise; we are bringing this litigation to ensure that an insurrection like January 6 never happens again."
"Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the United States."
"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection."
"Democracy was put to a test first by the pandemic, then by a desperate attempt to deny the reality and the results of the election, and then by violent and deadly insurrection on the capitol."
"The 14th Amendment says insurrectionists may not serve in office."
"They weren't protesters, don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionist, domestic terrorist."
"More than three years after the insurrection, the voters do not have access to a full accounting of what happened."
"No president now or in the future can lead an insurrection against the US government."
"The rest of us need to know the truth about 1-6 and the insurrection and Trump's role in it."
"Donald Trump who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power has filed to run for president again in 2024."
"The Insurrection is not dead, it's not even over."
"So it's okay to have a big lie if you don't start an insurrection?"
"That's the reason we saw the January 6 insurrection... it's not going away any time too soon."
"The evidence quite clearly establishes that he is guilty of various forms of criminal conspiracy, attempted overthrow of the government, and violent insurrection."
"This is going to be used on ads against them that they were supporters of the Insurrection." - Jessica Denson
"If this court affirms, it can write an opinion that emphasizes how extraordinary insurrection against the Constitution is."
"Those who storm this capital held a dagger at the throat of America."
"I'd also be looking very carefully at the causes and the instigators of that Insurrection."
"He's a domestic terrorist... He led in insurrection, disavowed the peaceful transfer of power in the United States."
"Not just that they're racist or that they believe in white nationalist replacement theories but that they were the ones to help stage the insurrection from the inside."
"He's done what somebody could determine really was Insurrection."
"DC's like a war zone because it's run by Democrats. DC became a war zone because on January 6th Trumpists tried an insurrection."
"the factual findings about him having engaged in Insurrection as defined technically for the purposes of section three of the 14th Amendment which says insurrectionists cannot hold office in this country"
"Taking away the president's ability to act quickly and decisively in the event of insurrection might be a mistake in the long run."
"The Confederacy was humiliated by the insurrection in Jones County."
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress... who shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same."
"A number of them wanted to murder Mike Pence. They wanted to find and execute Mike Pence. They apparently believed that Mike Pence had betrayed the president by not stopping the certification of the votes."
"The person who differs from you is none other than you."
"Donald Trump incited an Insurrection to try to steal the presidency from the American people."
"We have incitement... that led to the insurrection."
"Trump showed no remorse, did not acknowledge the role in inspiring the rioters."
"Patriot Purge traffics in conspiracy theories surrounding the insurrection."
"There's no question in the minds of the committee. We believe that Mr. Bannon clearly was one of the persons encouraging the insurrection to happen."
"The record demonstrates that Mr. Trump engaged in insurrection."
"One of the problems is when you have an insurrection political party that wants to undo and overthrow the system."
"We have an anti-insurrection Constitution."
"Some people are trying to deny what happened, to whitewash it, to turn the insurrectionists into martyrs."
"And he incited an insurrection against the Constitution."
"Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere, and even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."
"The community's goal is to try to connect the dots between the actions and decisions that took place in the White House and the president's inner circle that were then magnified and whipped up and led to the events of January 6th, the violent insurrection at the Capitol."
"The insurrection at the Capitol was more than an assault on democracy, it was an actual life or death situation."
"Out of the 33 passengers you had an extraordinary set of people it was almost as if somebody hand-picked the group that could best carry out an insurrection."
"Section three of the 14th Amendment is there to protect the nation. It recognizes that insurrectionists are a danger to our nation."
"Insurrection is a symphony of stupid."
"This was an insurrection not just of people who love Trump."
"Anyone who claims this was not a terrorist attack, a violent insurrection, is simply not facing real reality."
"January 6th, when Insurrection stormed this very capital and placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy, many of you are here on that darkest of days."
"Insurrection, he said, is a war upon the first principle of popular government, the rights of the people."
"We're here today for a single reason: an unpatriotic, cynical, power-hungry man incited a deadly insurrection."
"A democracy can't flourish if insurrectionists are elected to office."
"This is an Insurrection you have waged against the presidency."
"...the attack was incited by a sitting president of the United States to disrupt the peaceful transfer of Presidential Power by engaging an Insurrection against the Constitution."
"The essence of our case here is an Insurrection that was incited in plain sight."
"But now the bishop turns insurrection to religion: Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts, He's followed both with body and with mind."
"If you take an oath to support the Constitution and then you betray that Oath by engaging in Insurrection or giving Aid and comfort to those who do, you're constitutionally ineligible to hold public office."
"We started off with trying to define what insurrection meant."
"Capitalizing on violence to circumvent the Constitutional transfer of power from one president to the next, also known as an insurrection."