NC voters say Madison Cawthorn is ineligible for re-election to HoR

[pecksniff]

Story.

Should Rep. Madison Cawthorn be disqualified from being a U.S. Congressman? That’s the question a group of North Carolina voters are raising, saying the Republican lawmaker can not represent the Tar Heel State because the U.S. Constitution bans anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States from holding office.

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress,” reads a part of the Fourteenth Amendment, who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Lawyers representing a group of 11 voters have filed a candidacy challenge against Cawthorn with the State Board of Elections, ABC News reports, citing the Constitutional prohibition.

If this flies, Cawthorn won't be the only Congresscritter so debarred.

 

[Rightguide]

More fucking bullshit from the biggest purveyor of such on Lit.

 

[ll74]

The courts will decide

 

[butters]

Story.



If this flies, Cawthorn won't be the only Congresscritter so debarred.

it'd cover the majority of the republican senate and more than half of the representatives in the House.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Silly story. If he chooses to run, he’ll run.

 

[pecksniff]

More fucking bullshit from the biggest purveyor of such on Lit.

The talk about encouraging insurrection ain't bullshit.

 

[YDB95]

I would just as soon let him run again. The more publicity he gets, the better for Democrats everywhere else, because they would NOT want a guy like him in the majority!

 

[Cubantripod]

The courts will decide

Unless he's charged criminally, any attempt at trying to be disqualifying him from running for office will have a Court finding some procedural, or lack of jurisdiction grounds to punt.

 

[pecksniff]

Unless he's charged criminally, any attempt at trying to be disqualifying him from running for office will have a Court finding some procedural, or lack of jurisdiction grounds to punt.

Despite some widespread and persistent illusions on that point, not all courts want to find an excuse to punt.