I guess Cheney does not trust voters

Not sure that assessment is correct. The 14th amendment itself does not empower Congress to determine guilt. It empowers Congress to “remove such disability.”

Perhaps something else empowers Congress to determine guilt in such cases?

If he were to regain office, they could begin impeachment proceedings to attempt to remove him, if they felt such were warranted.

But it looks like only someone found guilty of having “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” would be barred from those offices.

 

Is she not supposed to voice her opinion while everyone else can voice their opinion?

 

That's certainly your own opinion.
The polls and mid-term elections show that the present bullies of the Republican Party cannot win election. This indicates that the actual RINOs are the radical right who gush over Donald Trump as though he were their messiah.

 

Sure, but she doesn’t get to lie and manipulate information on a committee of congress to pursue a personal vendetta against Trump instead of actually pursuing the truth of what happened on j6.

She is a lying queen of misinformation that has revealed her disgust for people who voted for Trump. Her voters saw her lies and held her accountable and she has been fired.

peace to you

 

But what was the actual evidence reported in said report that Trump did, where he violated the 14th Amendment on January 6?

 

Is she lying or are you unwilling to accept her truth?

 

She doesn’t own “truth”. Truth is not relative. She lied. She misled. She deceived. Her voters recognized her deceitfulness and fired her. Her political career is over and the house of reps is more conservative without her.

peace to you

 

We have a host of amendments, but that does not mean Congress rules on who has violated them.

Just because Congress can essentially override disqualification from holding office (“remove such disability”) in such cases, which may be akin to a presidential pardon in other cases, doesn’t mean they have any other say in the matter, other than to recognize that someone has been found guilty and therefore cannot be sworn into office even if elected.

So, the question remains unanswered. Where in the amendment is Congress empowered to decide a violation has occurred?

Or perhaps they were empowered to do so via some other legislation?

 

How so? Or is it just your opinion and that of the radical right paranoid fringe?

 

Don’t have the energy to educate you on something that is obvious to anyone who is open minded and without bias.

Her voters realized her deception and voted her out. Her political career is over. I’m glad she’s gone.

peace to you

 

Thing is, the far right is not open minded, so if you fit that group, you cannot claim to be open minded on this subject.
What we know is that far right radicals tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next and the former President applauded their illegal behavior.

 

That may all be true, but it doesn’t change the way Cheney acted on that committee.

I have stated before that some of the things Trump said that day were appalling. He called Pence a coward. He may have “applauded”, as you say, the protestors at one point. It was nauseating and unbecoming a POTUS. But what he did was not criminal.

What Cheney did was an attempt to make his actions criminal. She used her position as a token repub to mislead, deceive, misrepresent Trumps actions and statements. She was not looking for the truth. She, and the rest of the committee, had no interest in finding out what happened. Their sole purpose was to find a way to disqualify Trump from running again.

Had they conducted an honest investigation, they may have convinced more people that Trump’s actions made him unfit for office, not because they were criminal, but because he demeaned the office.

The OP is right in the mark. She didn’t trust the American people to look at the truth of j6 and see Trump as unfit to run again. Instead, her deceitfulness and misinformation made Trump look like the victim of another witch hunt where his political enemies abused their positions of power and misled the American people.

Her constituents saw through her lies and voted her out.

peace to you

 

Yes, that’s the basic context of that section. But where is the wording that says Congress also determines who has been an insurrectionist, etc., rather than going by court findings?

Anyway, the discussion regarding this particular case seems to involve prosecution, possibly rather difficult prosecution, to get to that point, not a mere vote of Congress.