A group of Georgia voters, backed by a coalition of constitutional scholars and liberal activists, filed a lawsuit against Green last month with state election officials. Greene then filed her own lawsuit in federal court, asking Totenberg to close the proceedings at state level. Totenberg said it would make a decision next week, most likely on Monday. This is two days before a hearing is scheduled by a state judge on the underlying question of whether Greene participated in or aided the January 6, 2021 uprising and whether that excludes her from office. James Bop Jr., a conservative lawyer representing Green, said the challenge was “50 pages of newspaper articles, rumors and political exaggerations.” He warned during the hearing that if the dispute was allowed to proceed, liberal groups would be encouraged to try to exclude former President Donald Trump from running for re-election in 2024. Friday’s hearing was the latest in a series of seemingly elusive January 6 GOP officials to be held accountable for a major congressional investigation, a federal criminal investigation that has focused heavily on their own interests. urban disputes. The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits incumbents from returning to elected office if they supported an uprising. The plaintiffs argue that Green could not run for re-election because she “helped” the January 6 uprising, which she allegedly planned with protest organizers, and “encouraged” the violence that interrupted the Electoral College certification. They cited Green’s comments, including a video in which she explicitly stated that she was opposed to the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden “because she did not win this election”. Greene’s lawyers say she is not rebellious and that blocking her would violate her First Amendment rights. He told CNN in the past that he “never encouraged political violence and never will.” A spokesman said he had not been involved in the January 6 protests.
Match with high bets
The challenge against the Greens was brought by the same teams that tried unsuccessfully to remove Cawthorn from the GOP qualifying ballot in North Carolina. A federal judge appointed by Trump has closed the challenge by ruling that the Civil War amnesty law passed in 1872 is still in effect and therefore protects Cawthorn from being barred from his role in the Jan. 6 uprising. Cawthorn has denied any wrongdoing on Jan. 6 and says he is not a rebel. Some of the leading experts on the “deduction clause” of the Constitution criticized this judge’s conclusion. And so did Totenberg, the Obama-appointed judge in Greene’s case, on Friday. “I do not think the amnesty law was likely to be promising,” said Tottenberg, who spoke in support of the opposition, who said the 1872 law was retroactive and did not protect future insurgents. Bryan Sells, the ombudsman’s lawyer, who is backed by the Free Speech For People legal group, rallied, saying, “The absurdity of his argument shines like a beacon.” Greene hired the same lawyer, Bopp, who prevailed in the Cawthorn case. He noted on Friday that no one had been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 uprising, “despite all the resources of the Department of Justice and the FBI.” He also said that removing Mr Green from the ballot would be tantamount to “stripping voters of their right to vote and overthrowing democracy just before the election”. The GOP has filed a lawsuit against Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger, whose office oversees parts of the nomination process. Raffensperger was infamously at the end of a telephone conversation where Trump pressured him to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia. Raffensperger refused to go along. In the federal case, Raffensperger is represented by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, who is also a Republican. State officials want the judge to dismiss Green’s lawsuit, which will allow the candidacy to be challenged before a state administrative judge next week. “You have an ongoing process that is in line with state law and we would argue for compliance with federal law,” Russell Willard of the Georgia Attorney General’s Office said Friday, urging Totenberg to “allow the ongoing process continues to bear fruit “. A hearing on the underlying exclusion case is scheduled for Wednesday in Atlanta, where a state administrative judge will determine if Green is qualified to appear on the GOP Qualifying Ballot. Elections are on May 25, and counties will begin posting absentee ballots later this month. The administrative judge has already rejected Green’s request for a deposition. The plaintiffs also demanded that he hand over a wide range of documents related to the 2020 and January 6 elections, including any emails he may have exchanged with rally organizers or members of extremist groups involved in the attack. Green opposes these efforts.
