A key circuit court decision involving the federal law that bans insurrectionists from holding office has emboldened plans by advocates to challenge Donald Trump’s candidacy if he runs for president in 2024.
“The precedent is now there,” Ron Fein, legal director for the advocacy group Free Speech for People, said Friday.
On Thursday, a three-judge panel in the 11th Circuit ruled that a challenge to the law by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was moot because she had already prevailed in state court over Free Speech for People’s bid to block her re-election.
The group had argued the insurrectionist ban ...
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