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John Bonifaz
@JohnBonifaz
BREAKING: We just filed a legal challenge to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's eligibility to appear on the 2022 ballot in Georgia based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. Read more here: http://ow.ly/pjjq50Iram0.
@FSFP
FreeSpeechForPeople
@FSFP
🚨 BREAKING:
We are representing a group of Georgia voters in a challenge to Marjorie Taylor Greenes candidacy for re-election under Sec 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies insurrectionists from re-election. #MTGIsDisqualified
Learn more here: http://ow.ly/pjjq50Iram0
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6:39 AM · Mar 24, 2022
John Bonifaz
@JohnBonifaz
BREAKING: We just filed a legal challenge to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's eligibility to appear on the 2022 ballot in Georgia based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause. Read more here: http://ow.ly/pjjq50Iram0.
@FSFP
FreeSpeechForPeople
@FSFP
🚨 BREAKING:
We are representing a group of Georgia voters in a challenge to Marjorie Taylor Greenes candidacy for re-election under Sec 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies insurrectionists from re-election. #MTGIsDisqualified
Learn more here: http://ow.ly/pjjq50Iram0
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6:39 AM · Mar 24, 2022
https://freespeechforpeople.org/georgia-voters-challenge-rep-marjorie-taylor-greenes-candidacy-for-re-election-under-fourteenth-amendments-insurrectionist-disqualification-clause/
ATLANTA, GA (MARCH 24, 2022) A group of Georgia voters filed a legal challenge today to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greenes candidacy for re-election in 2022. The challenge, filed with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, alleges that Greene is constitutionally disqualified from public office under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, on the grounds that she helped facilitate the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
The voters are represented by Free Speech For People, a nonpartisan, non-profit legal advocacy organization with constitutional law expertise, which is serving as co-lead counsel in the matter, along with New York-based Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP. Bryan Sells, an Atlanta-based civil rights lawyer specializing in voting rights and election law, is serving as local counsel.
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, provides: No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress. . . who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. The purpose of the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, passed in the wake of the Civil War, is not to punish the oathbreaker but rather to protect the country. No criminal conviction or prior adjudication is required under the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, although Greene would be able to seek judicial review of an adverse decision.
Anyone seeking to run for public office in Georgia shall meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for the office being sought. Under Georgias candidacy challenge statute, once a challenge is filed, the Secretary of State must request a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge of the Office of State Administrative Hearings to determine whether the candidate is qualified for office. The burden of proof then shifts to the candidate, who must affirmatively establish [their] eligibility for office. The challengers intend to issue subpoenas to Greene and take her deposition under oathsomething that the U.S. House January 6 Select Committee has not yet done.
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Legal challenge filed regarding Marjorie Taylor Greene's eligibility to appear on the 2022 ballot (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. Kickety-kick!
Russian warhorse, go...
well never mind.
KPN
(15,641 posts)2. Yay ... for the good guys!