Fulton County Judge Keeps Coup Plotter Insurrectionist Marjorie ‘Q’ Greene On The Ballot

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Update to GQP Congressional Coup Plotter Co-Conspirators Identifed In Tuesday’s January 6 Hearing (excerpt):

“Another part of the president’s strategy involves certain members of Congress who amplified his unsupported assertions that the election had been stolen,” Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) said. “In the weeks after the election, the White House coordinated closely with President Trump’s allies in Congress to disseminate his false claims and to encourage members of the public to fight the outcome on Jan 6. We know that the president met with various members to discuss Jan. 6 well before the joint session.”

“The president’s private schedule for Dec. 21, 2020 shows a private meeting with Republican members of Congress,” Murphy said. “We know Vice President Pence, chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani also attended the meeting.”

She then started naming Republicans currently serving in Congress.

“At this point, you may recall testimony given in our earlier hearing by Richard Donoghue who said that the president asked the Department of Justice to say ‘that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,’” Murphy said. “According to White House visitor logs obtained by the committee, members of Congress present at the White House on Dec. 21 included Congressmen Brian Babin (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andy Harris (R-MD), Jody Hice (R-GA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Scott Perry (R-PA).”

“And Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was also there,” she added.

Despite the evidence, a judge in Georgia declined to do his constitutional duty and keep insurrectionist Rep. Marjorie “Q” Greene from the ballot by applying the “disqualification clause,” section 3 of the 14th Amemdment.

The AP reports, Judge upholds Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility:

A judge in Atlanta has rejected an appeal by a group of voters and affirmed the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is eligible to run for reelection.

The five voters from Greene’s district sought to have her removed from the ballot, saying that she played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted Congress’ certification of Biden’s presidential victory. That was a violation of a rarely invoked provision in the 14th Amendment against insurrection or rebellion, they argued.

Represented by Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group, the voters filed a complaint with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in March.

Greene was questioned extensively during a daylong hearing in April before Georgia Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot, who ruled on May 6 that Greene should not be disqualified. Raffensperger immediately affirmed the decision.

The voters appealed in Fulton County Superior Court, where Chief Judge Christopher Brasher affirmed Raffensperger’s adoption on Monday.

Note: Earlier this year, Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Announces Plan to Retire (excerpt):

Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher has made plans to retire Dec. 1 — setting off a chain of events that will undo the upcoming election and hand the job over for Gov. Brian Kemp to fill.

Brasher, 56, notified Kemp in a resignation letter dated Jan. 28. Brasher asked that his resignation be accepted immediately but made effective Dec. 1. Brasher’s current term ends this year, and he would have been up for re-election in the May primary. He told the Daily Report Tuesday that he expects the timing of his announcement so close to the judicial elections will give Kemp the opportunity to appoint his successor.

[T]The situation brings to mind the controversy over the retirement of Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell, who resigned before he was up for election but stayed on the bench until after, allowing the governor to appoint a replacement. The maneuver was challenged for taking the decision out of the hands of the voters, but the lawsuit lost at the Georgia Supreme Court.

Bryan Tyson of Taylor English Duma, an experienced election lawyer, said “Judge Brasher’s resignation creates a vacancy before the end of the term, so the election that would otherwise be held this year is cancelled and the governor will appoint someone who will run at least two years in the future.”

Brasher was first appointed to the court in 2006 by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

The voters said Beaudrot made four legal errors, but Brasher found that Beaudrot acted properly.

Free Speech for People said in a statement that Brasher ruled “with minimal legal analysis,” and that it has not decided whether to appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court.

The challenge to Greene’s eligibility was based on a section of the 14th Amendment that says no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.”

Ratified shortly after the Civil War, it was meant in part to keep representatives who had fought for the Confederacy from returning to Congress.

Beaudrot found that the voters hadn’t produced sufficient evidence that Greene’s actions before, during and after the Capitol siege encouraged and helped facilitate a violent attack on the U.S. government and democracy in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

CNN obtained text messages apparently sent from Rep. Greene to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the period between January 6, 2021 and Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration on Jnaury 20, 2021 suggesting strongly that some of Greene’s answers at her initial hearing — particularly on who was responsible for the riot and what advice she offered Trump — were misleading or false. In other words, she perjured herself.

Greene won about 70% of the vote in the May Republican primary, easily defeating five challengers who tried to unseat her. She faces Democrat Marcus Flowers in November’s general election.

Georgia’s 14th District was heavily gerrymandered by the GQP to protect this insurrectionist internet troll and QAnon influencer. Greene will be reelected by her fellow anti-democracy White Chrisitian Nationalist Republicans.

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  1. UPDATE: Jason Easley reports, “The Georgia Supreme Court Has Been Asked To Disqualify Marjorie Taylor Greene From The Ballot”, https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-georgia-supreme-court.html

    A group of Georgia voters has appealed to the state Supreme Court to ask that Marjorie Taylor Greene be disqualified from the ballot for participating in the 1/6 insurrection.

    Free Speech For People laid out their argument in a statement:

    On July 25, Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County, Georgia Superior Court issued a decision upholding Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s earlier decision to allow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to appear on the ballot. A group of Georgia voters, represented by a legal team led by Free Speech For People, had challenged Greene’s candidacy under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause.

    The evidence presented at the April 22 trial before Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot included statements by Greene, including (1) she told her followers on video that “You can’t allow [Congress] to just transfer power peacefully like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our President,” and (2) on the evening of January 5, around the same time that extremists like Ali Alexander and Alex Jones were telling crowds of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys (whose written plan for insurrection was entitled “1776 Returns”) and other violent extremists that “1776 is always an option” and leading chants of “1776! 1776! 1776!,” Greene told her followers that January 6 would be “our 1776 moment.”

    Even if the voters don’t win their appeal before the Georgia Supreme Court, the case has been important because it has forced Greene to go to court and sweat it out for months.

    Proper accountability would be kicking Rep. Greene off the ballot, but so far, the courts have been unwilling to enforce the law.

    Marjorie Taylor Greene should not be on the ballot. Her conduct by participating in Trump’s plot to overthrow the government is potentially criminal, and it was a violation of her oath of office, and at minimum, she should be disqualified from the ballot.

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