Judge Kills Final Hope Of Barring Marjorie Taylor Greene From Holding Office

If we want Marjorie Taylor Greene out of office, the only way we'll be able to do that is at the ballot box, according to another judge. This week, a judge rejected an appeal by a group of Greene's constituents that sought to keep her off of the ballot due to her alleged support of the insurrection. So far, all of the challenges that have been brought under the law barring insurrectionists from office have failed, so it might be time to try a new tactic. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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A judge in Atlanta this week rejected an appeal brought by five constituents from Marjorie Taylor Green's district. Uh, a lawsuit of course, that was brought by, uh, free speech for people, challenging Marjorie Taylor Green's eligibility under the 14th amendment, claiming that she had supported an insurrection and therefore should be barred from holding office. The judge in Atlanta rejected this appeal, which of course means that the hope of getting Marjorie Taylor green kicked off the ballot is now essentially non-existent. Now this group, the five voters free speech for people. They had filed the appeal because they said that the previous judge who ruled she could stay on the ballot, made four distinct legal errors in his decision. And this appellate judge said, I don't care. No, no, he didn't. We're not even gonna hear your case. And here's the thing I supported this lawsuit. And I said, you know, if any of these, you know, 14th amendment challenges to any candidates have a chance of being successful.

It was in fact, the one against Marjorie Taylor green because of what she had put on social media. But the judge actually did point out. He said, listen, I'm not completely irrational here. He didn't say that, but that's kind of the gist of the ruling. He said, you failed to tie all this in and prove that her words encourage these people, that her actions led to those actions. And if you cannot tie all these pieces up together, I cannot bar her from being on the ballot. And as much as I hate to say it, as much as I did support this lawsuit, that is the correct decision. Legally speaking, if you can't tie up all these loose ends, if you can't prove that a caused B caused C you've lost your case. And of course, this was always an uphill battle for free speech for people, for these constituents.

It, it was near impossible to prove these things, but at least they tried, you know, I give them top marks, full credit for at least trying to do the right thing here. They did do the right thing. They just unfortunately did not have enough with their case to tie her up to this because I don't think the actual evidence to tie her up does exist. Now that doesn't mean, I think that she is innocent. By the way, personally, I do believe her words help spur on some of these insurrectionists. I can't prove that in a court of law. So my opinion means absolutely nothing. Now here's where you might really have a chance though. When we look at what the judge is telling us that you have to have, and we don't have it for Marjorie Taylor green, we didn't have it for Madison Callthorne. We didn't have it for some of the other folks that have

Been challenged. You know who we do pretty much have it for Donald Trump, him encouraging people go fight like hell. And they literally turn around March to the capital and storm it. I don't know about you, but I think if hard evidence, hard evidence exists, that is it. So a 14th amendment challenge to Donald Trump might be successful. It's very difficult to prove because a lot of it also hinges on whether or not the judge in question who hears this specific case, even views what happened on January 6th as an insurrection, if it was just a riot, your case is already thrown out because it has to be insurrection. It has to be an actual attack on the government. And if a judge looks at it like a right wing, judge we've, we've seen him do this. They say, nah, no, it was nothing. It was