Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in court on Friday in an administrative hearing on challenge trying to block it from voting in Georgia based on a post-Civil War policy on keeping the insurgents in office.
Ron Fein, the lawyer for the rival group Free Speech for the People, said Friday that “the most powerful witness against Marjorie Taylor Greene’s candidacy, in establishing that she crossed a line, is Greene herself.”
Greene’s attorney, James Bopp Jr., said the challenge to the candidacy “cannot be decided by this court” and suggested that the U.S. House of Representatives should have a role to play in debating whether it should be disqualified or prevented from being a member of Congress in 2023, after the midterm elections.
Bopp shouted January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol “despicable,” but said none of the hundreds convicted so far in the assault they were specifically charged with insurrection. She said Greene met with former President Trump on Jan. 3 “to object to certain states, based on evidence she believed constituted sufficient electoral fraud.”
A federal judge on Monday allowed the effort to disqualify Greene to run for re-election for his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol to continue.
The challenge to Greene’s candidacy was put forward by a group of five voters in his congressional district who argued that he is not eligible to run for federal office under a provision. of the 14th Amendment which was ratified after the Civil War and was intended to prevent former Confederate officers and officials from returning to public office.
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