As if losing his primary wasn't enough, an appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, has revived an insurrectionist charge against pro-Trump Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.).
The charge against the already defeated congressman could disqualify him from running for future office because — according to those accusing him — Cawthorn allegedly voiced support for the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. Some, almost exclusively on the left, have called the riot that day an insurrection.
The court ruled that Cawthorn failed to successfully argue he was immune from a post-Civil War era law that prohibits individuals linked to insurrections from running for office.
As North Carolina's Asheville Citizen-Times reports:
The three-judge Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 24 that a lower federal court erred in its ruling and must revisit the arguments of whether Cawthorn engaged in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The district court had ruled the 14th Amendment disqualification from federal or state office did not apply because of the 1872 Amnesty Act that restored the right to hold office for all but those at the highest level of the Confederate rebellion.
The ramifications for Cawthorn, an ambitious right-wing congressman who is only 26, could be long-running.
Cawthorn recently argued the case was moot because of his May 17 Republican primary loss to state Sen. Chuck Edwards. Because he is no longer currently seeking office, it is likely the district court will dismiss the case, according to Robert Orr, a former North Carolina Supreme Court judge who submitted a brief supporting the plaintiffs.
However, should Cawthorn be found guilty on said charges, he would reportedly be unfit to run for federal office again.
What was Nancy Pelosi and General Milley’s role in their failed insurrection effort in January 2021?
That civil war legislation was meant for those who fought in the civil war on the side of the south. It was meant to stop anyone who believed in slavery and fought for the south to get into political positions who could push the attitude favoring slavery and stopping blacks from voting etc. That legislation has nothing to do with anybody who said or felt January 6th was any such thing as an attempt to bring down the govt. It was our democratic party people who killed a unarmed woman, it was the capital police who opened doors and invited by voice and motioning with their arms into the capital and people walked around and at the worst trespassed which is not an assault to overturn the govt. I don’t know why Crawford doesn’t sue these democrats for damaging his reputation without their proof he even did what the civil war legislation is about. He’s has no charges, due process and no jury convicting him. He should sue these democrats, bring what is going on out in the open. They couldn’t get him with a sex scandal so they are using an old law that has nothing to do with Jan 6th.
Kamala Harris and other high-ranking Democrats paid bail for the insurrectionists in Portland and Seattle. They burned down cities and the vice president rewarded their heinous behavior. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!
It was not an insurrection. It was a protest of an election steal.
The left wing radical democrats just keep pushing this phony insurrection BS. As stupid as most of them are, even they can’t possibly believe that a few thousand unarmed people could overthrow our government. We need a complete purge of our government and rid ourselves of all left wing democrats that are trying their best to destroy our constitutional republic and replace it with their form of socialism, with them in charge of course.