Georgia's top election official said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will remain on the GOP primary ballot following a judge's ruling earlier Friday that rejected a bid to remove her over actions tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"In this case, Challengers assert that Representative Greene’s political statements and actions disqualify her from office. That is rightfully a question for the voters of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a decision upholding an administrative law judge's ruling.
Free Speech for People, an election and campaign finance reform organization, had filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of Georgia voters to kick Greene off the primary ballot, arguing she helped incite the Jan. 6 riot that disrupted the official tallying of the Electoral College votes.
They cited the 14th Amendment's prohibition on anyone who engages in insurrection against the U.S. government from running for federal or state office.
Greene denied the group's constitutional claims when she testified in a court hearing last month, insisting she was simply exercising her First Amendment right to free speech with her baseless claims that the 2020 election had been "stolen" from former President Donald Trump.
In his 19-page ruling, Administrative Law Judge Charles R. Beaudrot said the challengers "failed to prove their case by a preponderance of the evidence."
They did not sufficiently establish that Greene "engaged in...
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