Judge boots case to disqualify Gosar, Biggs and Finchem from ballot as 'insurrectionists'

[turbinetree]

BY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY - APRIL 22, 2022 11:32 AM

A trio of lawsuits that sought to disqualify Republican Congressmen Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and state Rep. Mark Finchem from the ballot for their alleged roles in the January 6 attack on the Capitol was dismissed Friday.

“This Court will follow the restrained and judicious lead of the federal courts,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Coury wrote. “Arizona’s election challenge framework is ill-suited for the detailed analysis of the complex constitutional, legal and factual issues presented in this case.”

The lawsuits are part of a growing legal effort to use the Fourteenth Amendment to disqualify candidates because of their support of the January 6 attack, claiming they are “insurrectionists” and thus unable to hold public office. The amendment was adopted during Reconstruction after the Civil War and was intended to bar Confederate leaders from being elected to positions of power.

https://www.azmirror.com/blog/judge-boots-case-to-disqualify-gosar-biggs-and-finchem-from-ballot-as-insurrectionists/

These cases are going to the US Supreme Court.....in my opinion.....

[Ray Bruns]

1. The problem is with the voters who vote for these morons.

You get the government you vote for.

[gratuitous]

2. "Oh it's just too complicated!"

Poor Christopher Coury just can't figure out what the challenges are all about. Makes his poor little head hurt, it does. Best to just dismiss the case and forget all about it.

What a weenie.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. "This Court will follow the restrained and judicious lead of the federal courts...

because if I don't my name is mud in AZ.