Lawsuit seeks to remove Pa. Rep. Scott Perry from 2024 ballot – By Pennlive.com staff (Triblive) / Jan 2, 2024
An activist has filed a petition to knock Scott Perry off the Pennsylvania primary election ballot for his role in trying to decertify the 2020 election results.
Gene Stilp, who ran for the state House of Representatives in 2014, filed the lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court saying that Perry’s connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection is enough to bar him from running for office under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Fourteenth Amendment bars anyone from holding office who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.
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