Justices gather to hear arguments over whether the former president is eligible for public office because he engaged in an insurrection on January 6
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Under questioning from liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Donald Trump’s attorney Jonathan Mitchell was asked to weigh in on whether January 6 was an insurrection.
After some back and forth, Mitchell said:
This was a riot. It was not an insurrection. The events were shameful, criminal, violent, all of those things, but did not qualify as insurrection as that term is used in section three.
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