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North Carolina voters file suit to disqualify Cawthorn from running for reelection
The hill ^ | 01/10/2022 | Tal Axelrod

Posted on 01/10/2022 11:24:46 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A group of 11 North Carolina voters filed a legal challenge to disqualify Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for a second term, arguing his involvement in a rally preceding the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill constitutionally bars him from waging another campaign.

Lawyers for the 11 voters filed the suit to the State Board of Elections, contending that Cawthorn’s comments in the speech shortly preceding the insurrection violate the 14th Amendment, which states in part that no person “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.”

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KEYWORDS: cawthorn; disqualify; hillofgarbage; hilloftrash; madisoncawthorn; marcelias; northcarolina; suit; talaxelrod; thehill; theshill; theswill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pro bear, but anti barratry.


21 posted on 01/10/2022 11:41:08 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: wbarmy
If they are going to take this approach, then Trump better be queuing up libel lawsuits against anyone (D or R) that slandered him over the phony Russia narrative. He could put a lot of them into the poor house, where they belong.
22 posted on 01/10/2022 11:41:44 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (It's becoming more difficult to tell the difference between a RINO and a Marxist.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t these idiots know that “Dead eye” is one of them? Dang! He voted to impeach the president!

I’d like to see him gone also, but not this way.


23 posted on 01/10/2022 11:42:04 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is like when they’d find one pastor who supported gay marriage, they’d blab it far and wide “Pastor supports gay mariage!” It was part of a larger plan to try to predent there was large group supporting the idea. And that’s how they generated social pressure for the idea. It’s astroturf.

Same thing here, eleven idiots call the liberal media, and get them to run the story - “Voters demand!”


24 posted on 01/10/2022 11:42:29 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The plaintiffs should be charged with contempt of court for bringing a frivolous lawsuit and the lawyers involved should be disbarred.


25 posted on 01/10/2022 11:43:56 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: wbarmy

The NC Supreme Court is a majority leftist court, not even democrats bull full fledged leftists.


26 posted on 01/10/2022 11:43:56 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bring it ash holes, bring it.


27 posted on 01/10/2022 11:46:41 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They know he will be re-elected in a landslide.

This is what the enemy does.

28 posted on 01/10/2022 11:47:29 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The commie ‘Hill’ writer: Tal Axelrod. Any relation to that commie David?


29 posted on 01/10/2022 11:47:30 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not one of the January 6th defendants - those released and those still languishing under their torturers in the Feral Fascist Government’s D.C. dungeon - were charged with sedition or insurrection - both being felony offenses. Even the FBI declared that the actions of January 6, 2021 were those of a riot, and trespassing. Therefore, on what legal basis do these 11 effing morons, and their enablers, think they will prevail with this horse sh*t?


30 posted on 01/10/2022 11:49:26 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Roberts can’t help himself - he has a closet full of live little boys and dead little girls.


31 posted on 01/10/2022 11:51:18 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: McGavin999
I think the state of North Carolina needs to sue the 11 voters for bringing the collective IQ of the state down.

And theft of atmospheric oxygen from productive and intelligent citizens who need it, AND emission of globe-warming CO2 with no legitimate purpose.

32 posted on 01/10/2022 11:51:26 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Probably really only 3 real Voters, with everybody using a few
Dead People names and party registrations.


33 posted on 01/10/2022 11:54:03 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Liaison

I suspect the latter, because democrat and republican commies hate the light and prefer to work in the dark background, generally.


34 posted on 01/10/2022 11:55:05 AM PST by curious7
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To: Fido969
It's called "astroturfing" - fake grass-roots effort intended to make people think it's a larger movement than it really is.

-PJ

35 posted on 01/10/2022 11:56:47 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Seruzawa

I am wondering with all this cancellation from free and fair elections, canceling ones right to work, denying civil rights, will end up? It usually ends up in efforts to delete others.


36 posted on 01/10/2022 11:57:56 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

Well sure. The libs are desperate. But since none of the Repubs have been found guilty of insurrection even the most left wing judges are going to have a hard time carrying this off. In fact the accusers are liable themselves for libel.


37 posted on 01/10/2022 12:06:09 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Major Matt Mason

Trump is their real target, this is to see if such a case can make its way into the court and be won.


38 posted on 01/10/2022 12:12:53 PM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

” contending that Cawthorn’s comments “

His words. What he said. Political speech.

If this gets beyond the very first trash can,
burn the whole effing place down.


39 posted on 01/10/2022 12:16:09 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Insurrection”! We predicted this several months ago.

Under the 14th Amendment, they can eliminate and arrest and charge ANY PROTESTERS ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME if an insurrection is declared.

THUS IT IS NECESSARY TO DECLARE TRUMP INSPIRED AN INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6 2020.

GA's Majorie-Taylor Greene, and others in Congress or as former Trump staffers, and ANY broadcasters who continue to support Trump, will shortly follow.

40 posted on 01/10/2022 12:28:22 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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