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Look at What They are Doing to This America First Rep

The nightmare scenario that the Democrat-Socialists began engineering long before the first barrier was breached on January 6th has begun. The North Carolina State Board of Elections has stated via a court filing against Congressman Madison Cawthorn that it has the power to disqualify him from running in the upcoming 2022 election due to his activities on January 6th. This incredibly disturbing assertion came from a case that Cawthorn himself brought in the hopes of stopping such a challenge that had been brought to the Board by a group of Democrat-Socialist activists seeking to undermine the America First Congressman.

The Board claimed,

“The State does not judge the qualifications of the elected members of the U.S. House of Representative. It polices candidate qualifications prior to the elections.”

“In doing so, as indicated above, States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges. The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Calling The Effort Against The America First Cawthorn Is A Stretch Puts It Mildly

The basis for this challenge is the false claim that the January 6th Capitol riot represents an “insurrection” comparable to the US Civil War between 1861-1865. It was in the wake of that conflict that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution was ratified ensuring that no former Confederate Officers or Politicians would be able to resume their previous posts in the government or seek new ones, a fitting punishment for taking up arms and indeed raising whole armies in treason against their country.

However, there is absolutely no valid argument that can equate to the limited actions of civilians on January 6th, or more specifically the actions of the members of Congress who according to their Constitutional duties, objected to the Electoral College votes’ validity from states where the electoral process was unconstitutionally compromised.

The fanciful, ill-conceived effort centers on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, the “disqualification clause,” which states:

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, 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, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

Rep. Cawthorn explained the situation to Steve Bannon on WarRoom.

“They are specifically arguing that I engaged in insurrection or incited some kind of violence here on Jan. 6. Now as you know, I was very proud to go speak at the Stop the Steal rally. I was very proud to debate on behalf of Wisconsin and try and block the electors in that state.”

“And apparently that — even though it’s a constitutionally protected right for me to do that as a congressman from North Carolina — they’re saying that that disqualifies me.”

Here is the insurmountable obstacle this effort faces: they must prove that Rep. Cawthorn’s speech at the Stop The Steal rally, incited the rioters to launch an “insurrection” *(which he did not, and they did not) and/or they must argue that in his Constitutionally protected power as a US Congressman, that his debate over accepting the electoral college votes of Wisconsin represented “insurrection” against the United States. Neither can possibly pass muster at the Supreme Court.

So why would North Carolina do this? Three reasons: it ties up time, expends resources, and hurts Cawthorn’s reputation. Everything you want to do to beat someone in a political campaign. It’s cynical, it’s evil and the scary thing is, that it might work and they plan to do this all over the country.

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