{"id":48169,"date":"2021-05-30T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48169"},"modified":"2021-05-30T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:37:32","slug":"no-need-to-re-litigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48169","title":{"rendered":"No need to &#8216;re-litigate&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13de742b104a6f7601d61e33bd99e3b1d9-mitch-mcconnell.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46353\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13de742b104a6f7601d61e33bd99e3b1d9-mitch-mcconnell.rhorizontal.w700-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13de742b104a6f7601d61e33bd99e3b1d9-mitch-mcconnell.rhorizontal.w700-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/13de742b104a6f7601d61e33bd99e3b1d9-mitch-mcconnell.rhorizontal.w700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memo to Mitch McConnell &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The effort to form a bipartisan commission to examine the cause and consequence of the Jan. 6 insurrection is not intended to &#8220;re-litigate&#8221; the event.<\/p>\n<p>Its intent is to establish the whole cause and to work toward ways to prevent such a thing from recurring.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump incited the riot that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The ex-POTUS fueled the anger in the mob assembled in front of him that day by declaring the election had been &#8220;stolen.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t. President Biden won the most &#8220;secure election in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, is playing politics with what should be a bipartisan\/nonpartisan effort. Police officers were injured as they sought to fend off the mob. One of them died during the melee; another one took his own life.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell is shaming himself, his office and the federal government he swore to protect and defend.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Memo to Mitch McConnell &#8230; The effort to form a bipartisan commission to examine the cause and consequence of the Jan. 6 insurrection is not intended to &#8220;re-litigate&#8221; the event. Its intent is to establish the whole cause and to work toward ways to prevent such a thing from recurring. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No need to &#8216;re-litigate&#8217;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9596],"tags":[9717,9593,2280,3099],"class_list":["post-48169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-riot","tag-bipartisan-commission","tag-dc-riot","tag-insurrection","tag-mitch-mcconnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48170,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48169\/revisions\/48170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}