Georgia judge upholds decision to keep Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on ballot

[ificandream]

Source: Marshall Cohen/CNN

A Georgia judge on Monday upheld Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection, handing another defeat to the activist groups that have tried to use the US Constitution’s ban against insurrectionists holding office to disqualify GOP candidates.

The groups have targeted lawmakers who aggressively tried to overturn the 2020 election and stoked the violence on January 6, 2021.

Greene, a prominent conspiracy theorist, won her GOP primary in May. The judge’s ruling does not change the status quo: Greene will appear on the ballot for the November general election, where she is heavily favored to win another term.

The challenge against Greene was lodged based on the 14th Amendment, which prohibits any officeholder who engaged in an insurrection against the US to return to their elected positions.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-reelection/index.html

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Can we please vote this trash out of Congress?

[FBaggins]

1. Why get rid of her?

That's an R+45 district. Whoever replaces her is going to be every bit as far to the right

Every time she does something nutty she hurts republicans in R+3 districts. She's perfect right where she is.

[GenThePerservering]

11. And the woman is a laughingstock

- knock her out of the running and that district might elect a worse devil (someone with a brain).

[JI7]

2. What a waste of time. Most people in that district are just like her

Why can't people understand the connection between people in the district and those that represent it ?

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Worth a watch to see what kind of people mostly live there.

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[SoCalDavidS]

4. WE Can't Vote Her Out. She's In A Red Shithole District. nt

[CosimoR]

6. Of course you're all right...

People in her district have a right to vote for a racist moron, and they will vote for a different racist moron if the local R party nominates one.

But it would have been nice to establish a point of principle, that they don't have the right to vote for an insurrectionist who has no right to run. And neither do all the other R's in other districts where insurrectionists are running again.

The trouble is that she can testify to her non-insurrectionist intentions, and, so far, no one can produce proof that she has lied about this under oath-- like proof of Capitol reconnaissance tours, or tweets during the insurrection? That's what we would need...

[CosimoR]

9. That's what I meant to say, thank you...

...except that she happily lied under oath about having no insurrectionist intentions, and in order to apply that part of the 14th, one would have to prove that she lied. I'm sure that there is evidence that she lied, somewhere. But the J6 committee has yet to go after the senators and members of Congress who actively assisted the insurrection.

[Polybius]

8. Good

Don't like her, vote her out.

[Seeking Serenity]

12. We should be allowed to vote against her

And all other MAGAsshats. Their presence in the Congress affects us all.

[Polybius]

13. Yes

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She should be allowed to run, and we can vote against her on the ballot.