Group fights Green’s re-election eligibility
A group of Georgia voters is challenging U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection, saying she helped facilitate the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
The challenge filed Thursday with the Georgia secretary of state’s office says it’s being brought by a group of registered voters in Greene’s congressional district. It alleges that Green, a Republican, is ineligible under the 14th Amendment, saying that “before, on, and after January 6, 2021, Greene voluntarily aided and engaged in an insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power, disqualifying her from serving as a Member of Congress.”
The 14th Amendment says no one can serve 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.” Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it was meant in part to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress.
Greene forcefully rejected the challenge in an emailed statement, saying she’s being targeted because she’s “effective and will not bow to the DC machine.”
“I’ve never encouraged political violence and never will,” she said.
The voters are represented by Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group, which has filed a similar challenge against U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in North Carolina that has been blocked by a federal judge.