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 ...
For those who don't know or remember, in late January Cawthorn proclaimed Biden's legitimacy and stated the election was not fraudulent.
"Yes, I think I would say that the election was not fraudulent. You know, the Constitution allowed for us to be able to push back as much as we could and I did that to the amount of the constitutional limits that I had at my disposal. So now I would say that Joseph R. Biden is our president.""So when I contested to the election, that was within the constitutional guidelines that the framers had set up. But after I've done that and the electors and the delegates from each state elected Joe Biden as our president, I respect the office. He is my president, and I want to work with him to make sure that we can bring some meaningful change to the American people."
Since Biden's inauguration, Cawthorn has signed onto a letter along with 16 other GOP House freshmen, saying they look forward to working with Biden. Notably, Cawthorn is the youngest member of Congress in modern history, according to US House records, at just 25 years old.
Above quotes and excerpt are from a Jan. 24, 2021 news report in an interview he gave with CNN
Pathetic attempt that is only likely to strengthen Cawthon’s re-election campaign.
The Mark Elias plan is now being implemented. They only need one judge in on state to make the case so that every state will be inundated with these law suits. Great for the talking points for the Dems.
Doesn’t matter to the Left. The Branding Campaign is all that matters.
Yep.
The left’s ultimate goal is to prevent Trump from running in this manner, esp. if they can charge him as an accessory to insurrection or some nonsense. That’s why they are desperate for him to give support to the martyrs in jail or to say something.
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