A federal judge on Monday rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's, R-Ga., attempt to block an effort seeking to disqualify her from running for re-election, allowing the challenge to move forward.
A group of Georgia voters earlier this year launched an effort to disqualify Greene from running based on a post-Civil War constitutional provision that banned members of the Confederacy from holding office. The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who took an oath to defend the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." The progressive group Free Speech for People has cited the provision to target numerous Republicans who played key roles in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
