Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA): Back in the Spotlight Again and Seeking Legal Cover

 

Taylor Greene and her BFF, Matt Gaetz

(A pair dingbats par excellence)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is scared to death about this story from Yahoo.News with this headline:

“Marjorie Taylor Greene seeks to quash effort to block her from running for reelection”

Greene is seeking to quash a legal challenge that would bar her from running for another term in Congress. 

Federal Judge Amy Totenberg heard arguments from lawyers for Greene, a first-term member of Congress from northwest Georgia, and from voters in her district who want to block her from running for a second term in office.

The lawsuit against Greene seeks to bar her from appearing on future ballots because it alleges she violated the Constitution “...by encouraging and facilitating the January 6, 2021 assault on the Nation's Capitol by supporters of Trump.”

The challenge to Greene’s candidacy is being brought by residents of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which she represents.

The legal effort is being spearheaded by a non-partisan legal advocacy group, called the Free Speech for People and Our Revolution – a progressive PAC.

Greene seeks stop the state of GA from hearing the challenge in the first place. If Judge Totenberg allows the case to proceed, arguments will be heard in the case by administrative law Judge Charles Beaudrot Jr.

The group bringing the challenge against Greene’s candidacy describe it as: “A national campaign to ensure that election officials across the country follow the mandate of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment and bar elected officials who engaged in the insurrection, including Donald Trump, from appearing on any future ballot. The legal effort is targeting numerous Republican members of Congress who, like Greene, spread falsehoods about the 2020 election. They incited Republican voters against the government in the days leading up to that January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.”

The clause cited is from Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment that was adopted in 1868 to reckon with the fallout from the Civil War, and it states clearly: “That no Person shall be a Senator or Representative 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, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

The legal complaint against Greene argues that the January 6 riot fits that legal and historical definition of an insurrection in part and says: “Actions against the United States with the intent to overthrow the government of the United States or obstruct an essential constitutional function.” 

The complaint reads: “Greene encouraged, and was otherwise involved in efforts to intimidate Congress and the Vice President into rejecting valid electoral votes and subvert the essential constitutional function of an orderly and peaceful transition of power. She was involved in either planning the attack on January 6, or alternatively the planning of the pre-attack demonstration and/or march on the Capitol with knowledge that it was substantially likely to lead to the attack, and otherwise voluntarily aided the insurrection.”

Greene, the complaint goes on to say: “Has a long history of advocating for violence against her political opponents and endorsing wildly false claims against them.”

On January 7, 2019, she advocated for exactly what would happen two years later saying: “If we have a sea of people shut down the streets ... flood the Capitol building, flood all of the government buildings, go inside these are public buildings we own them.”

Also, according to the suit, and in a video that Greene later deleted, she can be heard saying: “You can’t allow it to just transfer power peacefully like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our president because he did not win this election. He’s guilty of treason – a crime punishable by death is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi also is guilty of treason.”

My 2 cents: My earlier post about Taylor Greene's craziness is seen here and boy-oh-boy it ties directly to this story that clearly shows the kind of lunatic conspiracy nutcase she truly is.

I have nothing to add to this post today except to say that Taylor Greene has to go and that she should ever be allowed back on Congress.

I think the case against her is rock solid – but as always, we shall wait and see.

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