Fri May 6, 2022 – 6:42 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Freshman Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia should not be barred from running for reelection despite a left-wing attempt to get her removed from the ballot, an administrative judge ruled Friday.
ABC News reported that a group calling itself Free Speech For People (FSFP) attempted to argue that Greene supported the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which a fringe of supporters of former President Donald Trump broke into the building, assaulted police, damaged property, and trespassed in congressional offices, interrupting the certification proceedings for President Joe Biden’s election. (The vast majority of the pro-Trump rally attendees that day were peaceful, and many were actually let into the Capitol building by police.)
The left-wing group claimed that Greene’s supposed support for what they called “insurrectionists” rendered her ineligible to serve in Congress under the Disqualification Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says that “[n]o person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress” who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States, “or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Greene denied supporting violence in
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