Brian Sicknick’s Brother Calls on Congress to Block Trump on January 6

Craig Sicknick, the brother of the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, said at a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday that Congress should block President-elect Donald Trump from being certified when it meets on January 6.

Congress is scheduled to meet Monday, January 6, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, to certify the results of the Electoral College vote. In 2020, a mob stormed the Capitol, with many believing that the Electoral College vote in several states was fraudulent and that Democrats were stealing the election. Officer Sicknick was involved in clashes with violent rioters on January 6, but died of “natural” medical causes after suffering a stroke the day after the riot.

Ironically, Sicknick’s brother is making a demand even more extreme than that of the rioters four years ago: that Congress prevent the president-elect from taking office, this time by invoking Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment:

Left-wing Democrats argued that the Fourteenth Amendment could be used to bar Trump from public office because of its barring of those who had engaged in “insurrection”—i.e. , at the time, those who had betrayed the Union and joined the Confederacy. The Supreme Court rejected a Colorado attempt to exclude Trump from the ballot on that basis, but some Democrats continued to insist that Congress had the power to do what states could not do.

Rep. Jamie Raskin suggested last February that Congress could attempt to disqualify Trump from office in the scenario described by Sicknick, although he did not explain how it would do so with Republican majorities in both chambers.

At Saturday’s rally, Sicknick said it was necessary to prevent Trump from holding power again and urged the rather small audience to “continue the peaceful fight against the worst person to ever hold office in the history of our nation.”