Federal Judge greenlights....

[kadee79]

Suit to disqualify MTG from running for Congress again....

A federal judge on Monday rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's, R-Ga., attempt to block an effort seeking to disqualify her from running for re-election, allowing the challenge to move forward.

A group of Georgia voters earlier this year launched an effort to disqualify Greene from running based on a post-Civil War constitutional provision that banned members of the Confederacy from holding office. The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who took an oath to defend the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." The progressive group Free Speech for People has cited the provision to target numerous Republicans who played key roles in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Greene sought a temporary injunction and temporary restraining order to halt the effort, arguing that the case was unlikely to be resolved before Georgia's May primaries.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg on Monday rejected Greene's effort, writing in a 73-page ruling that she failed to meet the "burden of persuasion with respect to this important and essential prerequisite to [Greene's] demonstration of an entitlement to injunctive relief."

"This case involves a whirlpool of colliding constitutional interests of public import," wrote Totenberg, an Obama appointee. "The novelty of the factual and historical posture of this case — especially when assessed in the context of a preliminary injunction motion reviewed on a fast track — has made resolution of the complex legal issues at stake here particularly demanding."

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[djAdvocate]

this has obvious implications for the 2024 presidential election.

[billisonboard]

I think those on the left are setting up dangerous precedents for when it is them who are protesting governmental actions. I wonder how similar arguments could have been made against elected officials speaking out against US involvement in Vietnam.

[djAdvocate]

i think military protests are one step removed.
protesting an arm of the government is different, in my view,
from protesting the existence of government itself.

[happyhoix]

Mike Lee should come under scrutiny. During J6 he claimed what was happening was shocking and undemocratic, but now we have a stack of emails between him and Mark Meadows plotting how they could present slates of alternative voters in certain states and flip the election to Trump.

At least MTG didn’t hide her attempts to grab the presidency away from the duly elected winner. She’s been overtly seditious.

[billisonboard]

Apr 20, 2022 5:52:52 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Mike Lee should come under scrutiny. During J6 he claimed what was happening was shocking and undemocratic, but now we have a stack of emails between him and Mark Meadows plotting how they could present slates of alternative voters in certain states and flip the election to Trump.

At least MTG didn’t hide her attempts to grab the presidency away from the duly elected winner. She’s been overtly seditious.

READ: Mark Meadows' texts with Mike Lee and Chip Roy

From Mike Lee to Mark Meadows

I don't purport to know who fits into which category. I know only that this will end badly for the president unless we have the Constitution on our side. And unless these states submit new slates of Trump electors pursuant to state law, we do not.

From Mike Lee to Mark Meadows

We should chat then. I'd love to be proven wrong about my concerns. But I really think this could all backfire badly unless we have legislatures submitting trump slates (based on a conclusion that this was the proper result under state law). Even setting aside constitutional concerns, this will be harmful to the president if we don't channel this effort properly. We simply have no authority to reject a state's certified electoral votes in the absence of a dueling slates, with the Trump slate coming from a state legislative determination.

In each of these two messages, Lee makes clear that a different slate of Electors would be submitted based on state legislatures making a decision based on state law. This would have given Congress the opportunity to exercise their duty to arbitrate the dispute. With the current efforts underway to undermine state election processes in the future,, I can envision a situation in which I would like Congress to be able to consider an alternative slate based on officially certified results and not politically manipulated ones.

[billisonboard]

Apr 20, 2022 3:33:39 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

i think military protests are one step removed.
protesting an arm of the government is different, in my view,
from protesting the existence of government itself.

I think and in my view you are correct. And I assume with happyhoix's like that makes three of us. Whether it is a distinction that hold in the general population I am not sure. That is why I encourage caution.