{"id":47993,"date":"2022-05-06T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47993"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T23:53:24","slug":"greene-court-victory-delivers-latest-blow-to-insurrection-disqualification-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47993","title":{"rendered":"Greene court victory delivers latest blow to insurrection disqualification effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing efforts to disqualify some Republican members of Congress from seeking reelection on the basis that they engaged in insurrection related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack suffered another blow on Friday with a Georgia judge finding that Rep.\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Greene\u00a0(R-Ga.) is in the clear to seek a second term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five voters in Greene\u2019s district, working with liberal activists and scholars, challenged her candidacy by arguing that she engaged in an insurrection with her rhetoric in the lead-up to the Capitol riot. On the\u00a0witness stand in April, Greene repeatedly said she did not recall making such comments, that she called for a peaceful demonstration and that she was was unaware of plans for violence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Friday decision rejecting\u00a0the Georgia voters\u2019 challenge is the latest in a string of efforts to disqualify candidates over ties to the Jan. 6 riot that have fallen flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing efforts to disqualify some Republican&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47994,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47993\/revisions\/47994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}