Cawthorn Insurrection Challenge to Re-election Handed a Setback

Lawyers and voters behind a push to label Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) an insurrectionist, and therefore ineligible to run for re-election under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, can’t intervene in his federal lawsuit seeking to have the effort ruled unconstitutional, a judge ruled.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard E. Myers on Monday gave Cawthorn two procedural victories in his quest to block the North Carolina State Board of Elections from investigating the voters’ complaint that Cawthorn “engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”

He ruled that involving the voters who filed the challenge would only slow down a case that has ...