Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as 'Insurrectionists' (Gosar, Biggs, Finchem)

[Nevilledog]

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John Bonifaz
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BREAKING: we just filed, on behalf of a group of Arizona voters, new 14.3 challenges to the eligibility of Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Mark Finchem to appear on the 2022 ballot. The mandate of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment must be followed. https://nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/politics/insurrectionists-congress.html… @FSFP
Amid the storming of the Capitol, Representative Paul Gosar used the social media site Parler to post an image of rioters scaling the building’s walls, writing, “Americans are upset.”
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Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as ‘Insurrectionists’
New lawsuits target Representatives Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, as well as Mark Finchem, a candidate for Arizona secretary of state, claiming they are barred from office under the 14th Amendment.
11:20 AM · Apr 7, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/politics/insurrectionists-congress.html

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A legal effort to disqualify from re-election lawmakers who participated in events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol expanded on Thursday, when a cluster of voters and a progressive group filed suit against three elected officials in Arizona to bar them under the 14th Amendment from running again.

In three separate candidacy challenges filed in Superior Court in Maricopa County, Ariz., voters and the progressive group, Free Speech for People, targeted Representatives Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs and State Representative Mark Finchem, who is running for Arizona secretary of state with former President Donald J. Trump’s endorsement.

It was unclear whether the challenges would go anywhere; an initial skirmish, also led by Free Speech for People, failed to block Representative Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy in North Carolina. But they were the latest bids to find a way to punish members of Congress who have encouraged or made common cause with those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

In all three suits, the plaintiffs claim that the politicians are disqualified from seeking office because their support for rioters who attacked the Capitol made them “insurrectionists” under the Constitution and therefore barred them under the little-known third section of the 14th Amendment, adopted during Reconstruction to punish members of the Confederacy.

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[Hekate]

1. Fingers crossed for sucess in getting rid of them all

[calimary]

7. Wouldn't that be terrific?!

And long in coming, and we’ll-deserved.

[onecaliberal]

2. I am so glad to hear this is happening. I hope they expand even further.

[Hoyt]

3. When they are convicted, definitely. Otherwise, likely another failure with

poor optics among the 5 to 10% of “independents” who will decide the next election.

[Nevilledog]

5. Based on what?

Maybe those 5 to 10% of "independents" will support the fight to have insurrectionists disqualified.

[Hoyt]

6. Doubt it, if they ain't convicted or adjudicated an "insurrectionist." Sorry.

I could make an exception for trumpsters, I suppose. But what are we going to do when GOPers claim a Democratic civil rights activist is an insurrectionist?

Seems undemocractic to me, even if in our favor.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. I hope they get ridden of

Too late and close to the election date to get another candidate to run for the damn republican side.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Good