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Home Front: Politix

Federal Judge Rejects Dem Activist Attempt To Keep Madison Cawthorn Off NC Ballot Via 14th Amendment Insurrectionist Bar

2022-03-08

[LegalInsurrection] Democrat election lawyer Mark Elias predicted Democrats would try to keep Republicans off ballots using J6 as an excuse, and a North Carolina activist group took up the call. But a federal judge rejected the attempt.

With unpopular policies that drive inflation, laser focus on socio-cultural destruction that only a tiny (but vocal) portion of their own party cares about, and a hugely unpopular president and vice president, Democrats are giving up on winning elections at the polls and have turned to, among other tactics, trying to use their ridiculous faux hysteria about J6 to disqualify Republicans from running for office.

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn was targeted for such a move based on his speaking at a public event on January 6, 2021. The crazy left is attempting to argue that his giving a speech "amounted to an insurrection."

A judge just blocked this ridiculous attempt to block Cawthorn from running for office.

WRAL reports:

A federal judge Friday blocked an effort to keep U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn off North Carolina ballot this year, saying the state’s election board can’t proceed with an inquiry that would have delved his role leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Chief District Court Judge Richard Myers said he couldn’t allow the challenge, filed by attorneys looking to label the first-term Republican as an insurrectionist who should be legally barred from the ballot, to move forward. The courts, Myers said, must protect the soapbox, the ballot box and the jury box.

"When those fail, that’s when people proceed to the ammunition box," said Myers, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump

...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
The next step remains unclear. The North Carolina State Board of Elections could appeal Myers’ decision, but the legal team representing the board declined to say whether the board will do so. An elections board front man said the board was reviewing the court’s decision, which came down a bit before 12:30 p.m.

The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
has more in their article, "Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Cawthorn from Ballot as ’Insurrectionist’: A district judge ruled that the Amnesty Act of 1872, which forgave confederates, overruled a clause in the 14th Amendment barring ’insurrectionists’ from Congress."

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 ...I believe SCOTUS Roberts established a precedent when he told Trump that his appeal was 'overcome by events'. Of course, our imperial judiciary has a habit of flip flopping depending upon the applicant.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-08 08:55

#3 It's "foot in the door." The same people screeching about any efforts to de-certify the 2020 election will be having spontaneous orgasms if they judge shop this into a friendly court say halfway through Cawthorn's next term.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-08 07:52

#2 One of the biggest mistakes the "right" ever made in this country was to back off of actively confronting people advocating communism

The the Wall came down there should have been a reckoning. Period.

As for the Bolsheviks who've taken over the former Donk party, they need to be reminded of the three boxes. Soap box, ballot box, ammo box. Look at the Ukrainian citizens are doing to the Russian Army. You are demoralizing the one we had that was somewhat tactically effective and placing 'politically correct' rather than effective people in charge. That is what you are going to send against Americans? Cause your virtual world is going to change real quick.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-08 07:42

#1 One of the biggest mistakes the "right" ever made in this country was to back off of actively confronting people advocating communism (and "socialism" among those who wished to pretend they were kinder than communists).

Had we continued to pummel their ridiculous economic theories, we wouldn't be where we are today. Instead of continuing to confront they're nonsense, we were collectively "nice".

As a result, we're now at the point where the left can argue that we should cease the use of fossil fuels and replace them with the power of unicorn farts and its considered "rude" to argue that the people advocating such nonsense are intellectually stupid and insane.

The push to allow all sorts of madness to be given "equal footing" without pushback has lead us to the place where economic fraud, election fraud and legal fraud are treated as if they were all just "differences of opinion".

Posted by: Crusader 2022-03-08 00:25

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