Posted on 03/05/2022 8:15:43 AM PST by Enterprise
WASHINGTON — A judge on Friday blocked a shameless Democrat electoral challenge that sought to disqualify Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina from running for re-election by labeling him an insurrectionist.
U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers II, an appointee of President Donald J. Trump, stepped in to squelch an effort by Democrat lawyers in North Carolina who had filed a motion before the state’s Board of Elections declaring Mr. Cawthorn, 26, ineligible for re-election under the Constitution.
They had contended that the first-term Republican’s support for Patriots who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, made him an “insurrectionist,” and therefore barred him from office under the little-known third section of the 14th Amendment, adopted during Reconstruction to punish members of the Confederacy.
Judge Myers noted that section three concluded with a caveat: “Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” The Amnesty Act of 1872 did just that when it declared that “all political disabilities imposed by the third section” of the 14th amendment were “hereby removed from all persons whomsoever.”
The ruling angered Democrats who argued that the 1872 law applied only to Civil War confederates, not any insurrectionist in the future (truncated)
Mr. Bopp said on Friday that, because the 14th Amendment applied to past and future insurrections, so did the subsequent amnesty. Judge Myers, a former law professor at the University of North Carolina and clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, agreed.
Mr. Fein called for the ruling to be appealed, but the Marxists who brought the challenge cannot do that. Since the injunction was aimed at the state, only the North Carolina State Board of Elections or the state attorney general can appeal, and it is not clear that either will get involved.
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This won’t be the end of,it though,liberals never ever give up when they are out to,destroy someone. They are still,after stone and Flynn and others, and won’t relent one iots onmthe poltiicsl prisoners either. Nor will they give up,on Trump or any of his supporters. Thye are relentless. Their hatred boileth over
"Judge Myers noted that section three concluded with a caveat: “Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” The Amnesty Act of 1872 did just that when it declared that “all political disabilities imposed by the third section” of the 14th amendment were “hereby removed from all persons whomsoever.”
The Jo Jo the Pedophile Clown supporters are the REAL ‘insurrectionists’. The 2020 far left erection with its “All You Can Vote’ mail in ballots did more to bring down America than a bunch of patriots waving flags and signs and pissing on Nanzi’s laptop up in the Swamp in the District of Corruption.
This will give Madison Cawthorn more good publicity.
Yeah but watch the kett launch a campaign to malign him over “connections to insurrsction” and try to drum up other charges agaisnt him. They are stinkin relentless.
Madison Cawthorn is a deep state worm that should not be allowed to serve in congress - but not by illegal means. He should be primaried out of office.
citizenfreepress.com
Democrat lawyers in North Carolina filed a motion before the state’s Board of Elections declaring Cawthorn, 26, ineligible for re-election under the Constitution.
The feverish Dems contended that support for Patriots who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, made him an “insurrectionist,” and therefore barred him from office under the little-known third section of the 14th Amendment, adopted during Reconstruction to punish members of the Confederacy.
Judge Myers noted that section three concluded with a caveat: “Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” The Amnesty Act of 1872 did just that when it declared that “all political disabilities imposed by the third section” of the 14th amendment were “hereby removed from all persons whomsoever.”
The ruling angered Democrats who argued that the 1872 law applied only to Civil War confederates, not any insurrectionist in the future (truncated)
Mr. Bopp said on Friday that, because the 14th Amendment applied to past and future insurrections, so did the subsequent amnesty. Judge Myers, a former law professor at the University of North Carolina and clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, agreed.
Mr. Fein called for the ruling to be appealed, but the Marxists who brought the challenge cannot do that. Since the injunction was aimed at the state, only the North Carolina State Board of Elections or the state attorney general can appeal, and it is not clear that either will get involved.
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Good to know, thanks!
Excellent!
"Yes, I think I would say that the election was not fraudulent. You know, the Constitution allowed for us to be able to push back as much as we could and I did that to the amount of the constitutional limits that I had at my disposal. So now I would say that Joseph R. Biden is our president."
"So when I contested to the election, that was within the constitutional guidelines that the framers had set up. But after I've done that and the electors and the delegates from each state elected Joe Biden as our president, I respect the office. He is my president, and I want to work with him to make sure that we can bring some meaningful change to the American people."
“Madison Cawthorn is a deep state worm that should not be allowed to serve in congress - but not by illegal means. He should be primaried out of office.”
Yes.
Read my post 12.
Really? Somehow the language:
hereby removed from all persons whomsoever.
...seems to me to mean, uh, all persons whomsoever. (Which word, incidentally, I haven't seen used in a very long time). It doesn't surprise me that the Dems would love to be able to jerk people's rights for merely expressing an opinion since that party has gone full fascist. Another judge might have let them get away with it.
I guess all those Portland rioters can still run for public office, then. What’s an assault on a federal courthouse between friends.
Isn’t this a Marc Elias thing?
Good thing the case wasn’t brought in DC. The judges there would have him serving life without hearing.
Good. Pur a fork in that tactic, for now anyway.
Dems are scheming to steal 2022, rest assured. They’ll try every cockamamie theory until some Obama judge goes along. Then appeals, etc.
I despise these lawfare types.
Man those demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatrapers just love the Constitution when it works on their terms.
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