Legal victory in 14th Amendment attempt at removing Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot
Marjorie Taylor Greene is having the week from hell. As Palmer Report has previously laid out, Greene had been hit with a challenge for her reelection campaign. This challenge was not unlike the one mounted against Madison Cawthorn. Like the Cawthorn challenge, this is based on a Constitutional provision enacted after the Civil War. Greene has fought back hard, filing to have this complaint thrown out. And she just lost this round.
Judge Amy Totenberg has ruled the complaint can advance. She denied Greene’s pleas for a preliminary injunction. Judge Totenberg said in her ruling that Greene had not met the burden of proof in her injunction request.
“This case involves a whirlpool of colliding interests of public import” she wrote. As you might expect, Greene is losing her mind. Her attorney declared the ruling was “flawed.” I say it’s the candidate that’s flawed.
This is all a result of that section of the 14th Amendment. It says this: “no person shall” be a member of Congress or hold civil office if they had engaged in insurrection or rebellion after having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as a member of any State legislature or as an executive or judicial officer in any state.”
This does not mean it’s over. It only means that the complaint can move forward. Still, it’s great news for us and terrible news for Greene. Who knows how this will play out. But we will certainly be watching.
