A federal judge Friday blocked an effort to keep U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn off North Carolina ballot this year, saying the state's election board can’t proceed with an inquiry that would have delved his role leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The courts, Judge Richard Myers said, must protect the soapbox, the ballot box and the jury box.
The challengers alleged that, by stoking protestors' anger at a Jan. 6, 2021, rally in Washington, D.C., Cawthorn triggered Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which was written after the Civil War to keep Confederates out of key government jobs, including the U.S. Congress. Cawthorn has denied he engaged in any insurrection.
As a resident in Rep. Cawthorn's district, I am more than happy for this ruling.
@Garsco That is, if Uncle Klaus and Uncle George will let them.