Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as ‘Insurrectionists’ – By Jonathan Weisman (The New York Times) / April 8, 2022
A legal effort to disqualify from reelection lawmakers who participated in events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol expanded Thursday, when a cluster of voters and a progressive group filed suit against three elected officials in Arizona to bar them under the 14th Amendment from running again.
In three separate candidacy challenges filed in Superior Court in Maricopa County, Arizona, voters and the progressive group, Free Speech for People, targeted Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs and state Rep. Mark Finchem, who is running for Arizona secretary of state with former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
It was unclear whether the challenges would go anywhere; an initial skirmish, also led by Free Speech for People, failed to block Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy in North Carolina. But they were the latest bids to find a way to punish members of Congress who have encouraged or made common cause with those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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