"With more information about January 6, why it happened is now obvious - This wasn’t an “insurrection” by crazed MAGA Americans. Instead, it was something more nefarious"
The insurrection was inside the building, not outside the building.
More spceficially, Pence and the J6 Congress scandalously ignored (imo) probable state violations of the 12th Amendment (electoral vote rules) and Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, that section a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred, when they voted to accept Biden's alleged stolen electoral votes.
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added], ..."
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged [emphases added], except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
“3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters [emphasis added]; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction [spin] and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
But since corrupt state and federal lawmakers owned by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties cannot be expected to remove themselves from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for open rebellion against the Constitution, it's up to Democratic and Republican Trump-supporting patriots to effectively apply Section 3 to lawmakers by primarying all incumbents up for reelection in 2024, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company, Jordan (and others?).
"14th Amendment, Section 3: 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[emphases added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Finally, consider that probably the main reason that we hear media complaints about the electoral college is that it is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Did they violate the Constitution. Certainly.
That’s why they had to have a fake ‘insurrection’ by bird-dogging antifa democrats and police violence in a protest area.
We are just getting more confirmation that on Jan 6th this nation ceased being a Republic and became a Fascist state. Try to remember to thank Pence for letting that happen when you see him.
“John Stuart Mill
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
To be fair it wasn’t just Pence. The SCOTUS refused to hear a State to State lawsuit filed by Texas, that would have also forced the issue and allowed the Republic to survive.