A federal judge has given the green light for a group of Georgia voters to move forward with their legal effort to block Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for re-election to Congress, The New York Times reports.
The group is using what they see as her role in the events leading up the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as justification for their effort.
From The New York Times:
The disqualification effort is based on a constitutional provision adopted after the Civil War that barred members of the Confederacy from holding office. It mirrors several other cases involving Republican members of Congress, whose roles leading up to and during the deadly riot have drawn intense criticism.
The judge, Amy Totenberg, who was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by President Barack Obama, denied Ms. Greene’s request for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order in the high-profile legal feud.
Greene denies any role in influencing the Capitol riot. But Amy Judge Totenberg wrote that Ms. Greene had failed to meet the “burden of persuasion” in her request for injunctive relief. “This case involves a whirlpool of colliding constitutional interests of public import,” Judge Totenberg wrote. “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.”
Read the full report over at The New York Times.
