Georgia judge says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene qualified to stand for reelection

BREAKING: A Georgia judge has recommended that a challenge to GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's ( RepMTG ) reelection eligibility be dropped, with Georgia's Secretary of State GaSecofState set to make the final decision.

Judge Charles Beaudrot from the Office of State Administrative Hearings made the recommendation following an April 22 hearing to establish if Greene had participated in"insurrection" due to her ties to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.Raffensperger is not expected to remove Greene, who is popular in her conservative northwest Georgia district and among Trump supporters nationwide, due to his reelection campaign.

A group of voters from Greene's district brought the case against her due to her alleged involvement in Jan. 6 riot, which prosecutors argued amounted to an insurrection. They argued that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits from election to public office anyone who"shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the” United States or has “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

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