Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused her political opponents of trying to “steal” voters’ ability to reelect her.
The Republican firebrand said Monday that she has had to defend herself without the help of the Republican Party amid a legal effort that seeks to disqualify her from reelection on the basis that she aided the Capitol riot.
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“They are trying to rip my name off the ballot and steal my district’s ability to reelect me and send me back to Congress,” Greene said in an interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.
The constitutional challenge, filed by a group of Peach State voters with the Georgia secretary of state last month, accuses Greene of “voluntarily [aiding] and [engaging] in an insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power” in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as the reason to disqualify her candidacy. The challengers argue the congresswoman violated a clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, which dates back to the Civil War, that bars politicians from running if they have participated in “insurrection or rebellion.” The challengers are being represented by Free Speech for People, which claims to be a nonpartisan, nonprofit legal advocacy organization.
On Monday, soon after the interview aired, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg cleared the way for the challenge to move forward, denying Greene’s request for an injunction and temporary restraining order.
“This is fundamentally antidemocratic,” James Bopp Jr., a lawyer for Greene, said Monday evening, according to the New York Times. He added that Greene had “publicly and vigorously condemned the attack on the Capitol.”
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Greene, who is running for a second term and has voiced concerns about the jailing of Jan. 6 defendants, said her next court appearance would be later this week.
“I have to go to court on Friday and actually be questioned about something I’ve never been charged with and something I was completely against,” Greene said in the interview.
