Cawthorn fights ballot challenge accusing him of being 'insurrectionist'

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Rep. Madison Cawthorn is battling an effort to keep him off the ballot in North Carolina, arguing that state officials cannot disqualify him based on his call for a “fight” on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep Joe Biden from taking office.

“Representative Cawthorn vigorously denies that he engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, a country he loves,” the lawmaker’s attorney James Bopp Jr. told a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. “But this is not about the facts, this is about the law.”

The law, Bopp asserted, allows only Congress to decide whether Cawthorn, a Republican first elected in 2020, is eligible for a second term. A group of North Carolina voters maintains that state election officials can and should find that Cawthorn, 26, is disqualified under a portion of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified after the Civil War to bar those who violated their oaths through “insurrection” from returning to office.

“Challengers have reasonable suspicion that Representative Cawthorn was involved in planning efforts to intimidate Congress and the Vice President into rejecting valid electoral votes and subvert the essential constitutional function of an orderly and peaceful transition of power,” their attorneys wrote.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/04/cawthorn-insurrectionist-ballot/

[Claire Oh Nette]

1. Cawthorn reeks of flop sweat and desperation

Eight minutes of point by point refutation.

Methinks he doth protest too much. His campaign has removed signs from other candidates, and they called the ex husband of Wendy Nevarez to "see if their marriage was on the up and up," and that there'd be something in it for the ex if he came trhough.

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[Warpy]

2. Someboy still needs to charge him with insurrection

and he has to be convicted of it before the fourteenth kicks in and disqualifies him.

Run against him because he's a twerp who needs to be sent home to brag about what a big shot he used to be for the rest of his life.

[oldsoftie]

3. "Flop sweat". That has always cracked me up. Thank you.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Wendy does not have the fire and spittle that the baby...

Cawthorn has. No idea if that will hurt her. Also no idea if her seating position in the video will help in her district. Seems she was positioned to show off the diamond on her left hand and the earrings.

If that gets her some votes, fine, but I'd really like to hear just a little bit of "Fuck You".

[LenaBaby61]

7. I still have Dem friends ....

Who are still down with the "Let's not get into the gutter with the GOP

It's like, my friends don't get that the GQP is trying to literally KILL, MURDER women, and they just don't get it. Maybe because they're of an older set and past child-bearng age. Don't get that contraception, Social Security, Medicare--which is NEXT on the GQP's list of "Let's turn this country into the USSA or into Hitler's Nazi Germany. There IS a way to call them out, and if this isn't the time then when is? When we're all living in the USSA of the US GQP Taliban putin party of the Americas?

[IcyPeas]

5. deny deny deny.... and lie

it works if you are a repub.....

[sakabatou]

6. Says the guy who cheered on the insurrectionists.

[The Jungle 1]

8. cawthorn is a maggot