14-3

By Hubie and Bertie

House Speaker Pelosi wrote her caucus a "Dear Colleague" letter today. It's mostly a head's-up about tomorrow's resolution calling on Vice President Poonce to get the 25th Amendment in gear. Mikey's got 24 hours to respond, after which the House majority will proceed with impeachment.

But there's also a little nugget buried in her penultimate paragraph: "Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment, Section 3 and impeachment are valued as we continue."

You might think, wait — what? Who said anything about the 14th Amendment, Section 3? What is the 14th Amendment, Section 3?

Well, here it is:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who — having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States — shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

(Em dashes and emphasis ours.)

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been a topic of conversation ever since two-thirds of the House GOP caucus signed on to that bogus Texas lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election. Now, since the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday, the talk's getting louder. As long-suffering citizens with a traitorous Trumpster Congress member, we just want to say: We like this plan! We cats PURR.