There is a lawsuit in Georgia to challenge Greene’s 2022 candidacy on the basis that she’s an insurrectionist.
Lawyers for Greene say she isn’t an insurrectionist and that disqualifying her would violate her First Amendment rights. She previously told CNN that she had “never encouraged political violence and never will.”
Oh, really? Do you really want me to spend a few minutes on Google looking up those campaign ads of you threatening the Squad with an assault rifle?
Oh, another interesting part of that article is how a Trump-appointed judge struck down a similar challenge to Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy:
The anti-Greene challenge was brought by the same groups that unsuccessfully tried to remove Cawthorn from the GOP primary ballot in North Carolina. A Trump-appointed federal judge shut down that challenge, ruling that a Civil War amnesty law passed in 1872 still applies and therefore shielded Cawthorn from being disqualified over his role in the January 6 insurrection.
Cawthorn has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6 and says he isn’t an insurrectionist.
Some of the leading experts on the Constitution’s “disqualification clause” criticized that judge’s conclusion. And on Friday, so did Totenberg, the Obama-appointed judge in Greene’s case.
“I don’t think that the Amnesty Act likely was prospective,” Totenberg said, siding with the challengers, who said the 1872 law was retrospective and didn’t protect future insurrectionists.
Bryan Sells, attorney for the challengers, who are backed by the legal advocacy group Free Speech For People, piled on, saying, “The absurdity of his argument shines through like a beacon.”
Oh, so what that judge is saying is that as long as you’re in Congress, you can try to overthrow the government whenever you want to and not lose your job unless your voters vote you out.
This was also just mentioned in the “7 Jan 2021 and beyond” thread, where I also posted this question:
Maybe not. OJ was sued successfully for a wrongful death judgement despite being acquitted of murder in a criminal trial. Different courts and different jurisdictions might have different thresholds to meet for a case.
Now, I’m just saying this is possible, I don’t actually know for certain. But it’s not necessarily the case that a criminal conviction is required.
Matt Gaetz has entered the war against Jimmy Kimmel, calling him sexist for going after MTG and Boebert, with hilarious results. Pass the popcorn.
Matt Gaetz inviting Jimmy Kimmel to a barb trading contest is like Matt Gaetz challenging John Bonham to a drum solo duel.
What a pathetic, entitled, dumb person Gaetz is.
Maybe the right and the left can cross party lines and all agree that they don’t like MTG?
Apparently she found it crucial to please that infamous audience-of-one, the Bone-Spurs Blight.
How is it that someone with wicked wit hasn’t dismantled her yet? I mean, like on the House floor, not standups.
Well, maybe a little bit of campaign dismantling, starting, here? (also coulda gone in the schadenfraude thread)…
(odd - usually have an issue with Business Insider links with their register-before-reading pop-ups, but oddly not this time. Meanwhile - all other sources/links I checked - no access 
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huh, never knew this:
Guess they kinda fell by the wayside.
(optics, you know)
Other buncha very interesting tidbits in this article.
I wonder what in hell she needed to hire Eastman for. Is she planning her own insurrection and needs to have a legal basis (however shaky) for it?
Getting ready to do some really fancy Articles of Impeachment against the entire Biden admin? Or subpoenas for every member of the household of every federal employee on the Executive Service scale? Building a case for that the Speakership election only requires a plurality within the majority, and can be given to a non-Member? Preparing for a series of attempts to disqualify the candidacies or elections of specific Ds, as some persons and groups have called for being done to herself and Cawthorn? Arguing that armed private bodyguards should be allowed inside the Capitol? The possibilities are endless.
Getting fleeced out of her campaign war chest by a charlatan because she’s an idiot? Magic 8-ball: “It is decidedly so.”
Or just hiring a Trump “big gun” to show her cred.
This thread or the schadenfraude one?
Well, what good is the grift if you don’t skim the scum off of the top?
She’ll be having a little chat under oath on Friday that may require his legal expertise. It’s not a criminal trial, so pleading the Fifth won’t be overly useful. And it will apparently be broadcast live. Not sure if Eastman will actually be there for her, but we can hope.
Entertainment potential: medium to high.
I’d missed this part of the story.
It’s a good thing. For all these months, people who actively connived at overturning an election have seen very little in the way of consequences. Sure, some who actually did physical damage inside the Capitol building have seen some legal penalties…but all those such as Greene who helped things along without putting herself in danger in that 1/6 mob, have skated.
And all those watching have seen that there have been no consequences. Conclusions, inevitably, have been drawn.
For this to be televised is important; people need to see someone facing some blow-back for what they did.
Wait a minute—
Is MTG testifying before the Jan 6 committee on friday? On television? Is that what I just read?
No, you did not. MTG is testifying in a lawsuit some patriots brought against her candidacy on 14th Amendment grounds. Other such cases have been tossed without getting this far. This judge, however, is going to get things into the legal record.