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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
That’s their plan?
But lawfare doesn’t even need that many. One voter with a lot of lawyers can make a case.
Hopefully the judges shoot this down hard or send it straight to the Supreme Court. This kind of BS needs to be hit with a shovel hard.
Since there has not been one person charged with insurrection, this should be a no brainer.
This is what the “insurrection” narrative is all about.
Disqualifying the opposition in pursuit of one party rule.
It happens in every banana republic.
(which we have been since ALL our our elected AND appointed abrogated the Constitution on Usurpation Day)
Deep pocket voters to hire lawyers? Or shills , strawmen for a larger group?
I think the state of North Carolina needs to sue the 11 voters for bringing the collective IQ of the state down.
Marc Elias has bought and paid for them
they’re going to get a counter-suit for defamation. You can’t claim someone is a felon when they aren’t.
He can offer to resign just as soon as every left-wing office holder who has made statements against or acted against the U.S. constitution does the same.
You have a lot more confidence in the court than I do.
Roberts does the bidding of his masters.
Except for the laughs, why did The Hill waste electrons posting this?
Mental masturbation.
5.56mm
The January 6th Insurrection, where a year later not a single person has been charged with insurrection.
We have officially been a banana republic for 13 years. Likely longer than that in reality.
The vile hatred of Cawthorne by the liberals here in Western NC is thick enough to smell.
This is Marc Elias’s scheme to try and eliminate Repubs in congress.
Where’s nanci ripping up our Constitution?
Yep! Their only chance to hold on to control.
Do they have standing? Conservative voters never get standing when we sue against voter fraud. We have to hope that the GOPe guy we’re holding our noses for sues but only after he loses and its too late.
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