Marjorie Taylor Greene

Voters and a supporting legal group are seeking to knock the controversial Republican off the ballot for her role prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the ...

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Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told a Georgia judge hearing an effort to block her from the ballot in her re-election bid that she had ...

The voter challenge is being spearheaded by a group called Free Speech for People that advocates for campaign finance reform. During media interviews, Greene has downplayed and justified the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters in their failed bid to block congressional certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. "I was not asking them to actively engage in violence." "I don't know how to answer that." Greene is seeking re-election this year. In a statement Thursday, Trump incorrectly blamed Raffensperger and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, for allowing the challenge against Greene to proceed, saying she is "going through hell in their attempt to unseat her." Celli played a clip of an interview Greene did Jan. 5, 2021, in which she said preventing the certification was "our 1776 moment" — an apparent reference to the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. When Celli asked if she was aware that some Trump supporters used that remark as a call to violence, Greene said that wasn't her intention and that she was talking about her plans to object to the certification of electoral votes. But during Celli's cross-examination, she was unable to testify to any occasion between the 2020 election and Jan. 6 in which she urged those protesting the election outcome to be peaceful. "I was talking about the courage to object," she said. argued that the statement was "hyperbole" and irrelevant to the case. Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told a Georgia judge hearing an effort to block her from the ballot in her re-election bid that she had urged people to join a "peaceful march" on Jan. 6, 2021, that turned into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. A group of voters has brought a novel legal challenge to Greene's re-election bid, arguing that the supporter of former president Donald Trump has violated a provision in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution known as the "Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause."

The congresswoman simply couldn't remember anything about her alleged role in the January 6 insurrection—or before that—while being questioned under oath on ...

To honor your privacy preferences, this content can only be viewed on the site it originates from. To honor your privacy preferences, this content can only be viewed on the site it originates from. Andy Biggs or Paul Gosar about them, if she spoke to anyone at the White House about them, or if she had been told by anyone that there might be violence in Washington on January 6, Greene responded, “I don’t remember”—to every single question.

A coalition of Georgia voters argue Greene should be disqualified under the 14th Amendment for being an “insurrectionist.”

Greene had sued to block the legal proceeding from moving forward, but a district court judge threw out her lawsuit, allowing Friday’s hearing to move forward. Under Georgia law, the administrative law judge hearing the case will issue a ruling within 30 days on whether Greene should be barred from running. Free Speech for People is also moving forward with a separate challenge to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) and his candidacy, which is now before a federal appeals court after a district judge sided with Cawthorn. The plaintiffs argue that Greene’s social media statements are a clear indication of her support for the January 6 attack, saying insurrections are no longer carried out through the military but “through social media and the mass media.” In his closing argument, Celli told the court not to “buy” Greene’s comments saying she didn’t remember making social media statements about the rally and that she didn’t realize there was any connotation of violence when she said January 6 would be a “1776 moment.” “You have her own words, in context, against nothing, not even a denial,” Celli said about Greene’s social media statements versus her comments on Friday. Greene and attorney James Bopp argued that Greene was herself a “victim” of the January 6 attack because she was at the Capitol as it was taking place and so could not have supported it—and denied that it was an “insurrection” to begin with—and Bopp argued she should not be barred from running based on speech protected under the First Amendment. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) denied any involvement with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building and evaded questioning about quotes she had made that alluded to political violence, as she took the stand Friday in a trial to determine whether she should be disqualified from running for reelection for being an “insurrectionist.”

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was hostile during testimony Friday in a hearing on her eligibility to run for reelection, saying she did not remember ...

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A hearing Friday on the longshot bid to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot forced the far-right lawmaker to confront some of the incendiary ...

She said she did not know who liked from her account a Facebook post that referenced a "bullet to the head" of Pelosi, but she couldn't saying definitively it wasn't her. Beaudrot sustained objections Friday lodged by Bopp to questions about Greene's state of mind when she took her oath of office on January 3, 2021. Faced with a blockade of "I don't recalls," challengers had little luck in getting Greene to elaborate her discussions or activity before the January 6 attack. - who are working with local voters in Greene's Georgia district -- are seeking to remove Greene from the ballot as part of a larger campaign to use the Constitution's 14th Amendment to hold accountable those lawmakers who allegedly boosted the violent disruption to Congress' certification of the 2020 election. But at times he knocked that tactics of the challengers' lawyers. Her testimony did not establish that she planned for violence or coordinated with anyone who rioted on January 6. She later said she couldn't recall whether she spoke to anyone in government about the protests planned for January 6. When questioned by Celli, she said she did not know whether her FBI was behind the attack. She fiercely rebuked any suggestions that violence was what she had in mind as she called for protests and objections to Congress' certification of President Joe Biden's win. Their lawyer also griped that, because of the quick timeline of the disqualification proceedings before the coming primaries, they weren't allowed to obtain additional discovery. They tried to connect Greene to the plans to violently interrupt Congress' electoral vote count and to those who orchestrated the attack. The activists challenging her congressional candidacy argued that her statements made her a participant of an insurrection, and thus, disqualify her from future government service.

The controversial Republican representative took the stand in an Atlanta courthouse, attempting to defend her record and legitimize her ability to run for ...

Previously, Ron Fein, the legal director for Free Speech for People, told the New York Times that the organization looks “forward to questioning Greene under oath about her involvement in the events of Jan 6, and to demonstrating how her facilitation of the insurrection disqualifies her from public office under the United States Constitution.” ,"enhanced_tags":[],"breaking_banner_text":null,"ama_is_over":false,"uuid":"f59d5abc-19b2-4cbb-9a0b-c350c7ebf129","character_count":1197,"breadcrumbs":[{"url":"news","name":"News"},{"url":"topics/politics","name":"Politics"}],"ama_start_time":{"_seconds":1650663450,"_nanoseconds":0},"edition_names":[],"seo_schema":null,"sort_time":{"_seconds":1650663732,"_nanoseconds":0},"is_feature":false,"termIds":[135815,135896,33821,33822,33953,5049382,1,136238,136373],"social_description":null,"enhanced_term_url":null,"enhanced_name":null,"is_breaking":false,"terms":["NowThis","Apple News","Facebook Instant","Google AMP","Search Engines","Gabriella 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Voters and a supporting legal group are seeking to knock the controversial Republican off the ballot for her role prior to the Jan.

"Those voters have the right to vote for the candidate of their choosing." Raffensperger is up for reelection himself and faces a GOP primary challenge, so he may be hesitant to make political waves by pulling Greene from the ballot before the May 24 primary. The plaintiff's lawyers also played a January 2021 Facebook video in which Greene said, "You can't allow it to just transfer power peacefully like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our president. They just don't understand, they're galvanizing the district more towards her." "I don't support violence of any kind," Greene said in response to a question. The evidence will show that Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of them." Lawyers with Free Speech For People are leaning on a provision in the U.S. Constitution that forbids any member of Congress involved in an insurrection from serving in office. Appeals have been filed in both. "This was not a case where the leaders were on horseback leading the charge," Ron Fein, legal director for Free Speech for People, told the judge. It's being stolen." "The right to vote is at stake, right here, right now because they want to deny the right to vote to the thousands of people in the 14th district of Georgia by removing Greene from the ballot," James Bopp, an Indiana-based attorney for Greene, said in opening arguments. Greene says the challenge to her candidacy is a lie and a scam designed to take away her constituents' rights to vote for the candidate of their choice.