A group of Georgia voters on Thursday asked state officials to block Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection, alleging she is unfit for office because of her support of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Highlights
- Georgia voters want to block Republican U.S.
- Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection.
- The voters claim Greene has violated a provision of the Constitution known as the “Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause” The clause prohibits politicians from running if they have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.
- Greene has downplayed and justified the Jan.
- 6, 2021, attack, in which supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, battling with police and sending lawmakers running for their lives after a fiery speech by Trump near the White House.
- Greene could also ask a federal judge to step in and block the challenge.