Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) place on the 2022 general election ballot has been reaffirmed by a Georgia judge.
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Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County Superior Court upheld Greene’s eligibility for reelection Monday, handing another defeat to a group of voters who appealed a lower court ruling that rejected their request to disqualify her.
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“Petitioners next assert that the Administrative Law Judge failed to properly consider Representative Greene’s conduct prior to her taking the oath of office on January 3, 2021,” Brasher wrote. “This is precisely the reweighing of evidence that the Georgia law prohibits.”
Petitioners, who were represented in court by Free Speech for People, a campaign finance reform advocacy group, had argued that Greene played a significant role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
They argued there was a violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars individuals from public office who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States or had “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
A prior ruling in May determined that the petitioners had failed to make the case that Greene engaged or supported an insurrection effort adequately. She had delivered testimony before the court in April in which Greene argued that she could not recall many details of the events that led up to the riot and did not want Jan. 6 to devolve into violence.
Brasher determined that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that there had been procedural problems during the first disqualification trial against Greene and upheld the ruling.
Following the ruling, Free Speech for People said Brasher reached his conclusion “with minimal legal analysis” and noted that the group is weighing whether it will bring the case to the Georgia Supreme Court, the Associated Press reported.
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Similar cases have been brought against other allies of former President Donald Trump, including Reps. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ), seeking to boot them from the ballot. So far, none of those cases have prevailed in court.
Greene recently clinched the Republican nod for reelection in her district, edging out several primary challengers, and is favored to win the general election in the fall, according to multiple analyses, such as those from the Cook Political Report.
