Has (Marjorie Taylor Greene) become the face of the Republican party?

Aren't they supposed to arrest her, charge her with insurrection, presume her innocent until proven guilty, and then, after she's had due process, only if she's found guilty talk about limiting her rights?

I think that Brandon is saying that instead of facing a hearing to see if she is fit gor office, she should be charged with treason and held on remand prior to a hearing.

If I were a member of Congress, and let us all be thankful that I am not, I think I would remember whether the President* of the United States and I had a chat about the possibility that he would declare martial law in order to stay in office after he’d lost an election. That would be the kind of thing that would stick with a fella, I would think.

Unfortunately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just couldn’t quite remember if she and the former president* had discussed the troops-in-the-street option prior to the insurrection on January 6, 2021. You know, she’s been really busy, what with being banned from Twitter and stripped of her committee assignments. You can’t expect her to remember every little detail of that chaotic time, like whether the president* and she talked about overthrowing the government by force of arms.


Do you believe President Trump should impose martial law to remain in power?

In those meetings, you discussed with him your advocacy for the idea that there should be martial law declared in the United States?

Did you ever advocate that any member should push for martial law?

Are you or any other congressional representatives advocating for martial law to stop the peaceful transition of power before the inauguration?


Twelve years of civics classes tell me that every member of Congress since Alexander Hamilton Stevens should be able to answer that question in the negative. Answering “yes” would be horrifying, but no longer a surprise. But Rep. Greene couldn’t remember any such discussion at all, and if any exchange typified the extended puppet show in Georgia on Friday, it was that one. She was facing an administrative court judge on a challenge by voters in her district that argues that Greene is disqualified from running for re-election because her involvement in the events of January 6 place her in violation of a provision of the 14th Amendment that states:


No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.


The whole thing is a long shot, but it’s one worth taking if it gives pause to any of the up-and-coming crazies who likely will be arriving in Washington next January. Of course, the only thing the administrative court can do is recommend actions to the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, who’s been a piñata ever since he refused to go along with the former president* two years ago, and who’s running for re-election at the moment.

Greene performed pretty much as expected: bellyaching about how mean CNN and Mother Jones have been to her, accusing the lawyers from the other side of barbering damaging video clips, disavowing social media entries from her own accounts, throwing out references to Antifa and BLM whenever she had the chance, and suffering terrible episodes of memory loss that cleared up only when her lawyers questioned her. And she had the cream of the wingnut legal community on duty—James Bopp, the big daddy of voter suppression and unlimited corporate money, and Kurt Hilbert, a local lawyer who’d been on the famous phone call in which the former president* asked Raffensperger to find him 11,000 votes. When Greene was suffering amnesia on the topic of martial law, Bopp leaped in with the most preposterous assertion of executive privilege in the history of recorded time. He was overruled, but he earned his money on Friday, for sure.

Greene was pretty plainly dealing throughout in barefaced non-facts. She was an objectively terrible witness on her own behalf, probably the most obviously non-credible person I’ve seen on a witness stand since I saw a Massachusetts bagman claim a senator who’d been paying him off for decades actually was extorting him. But it’s almost impossible to imagine this challenge actually succeeding. The poor, old 14th Amendment has taken a brutal beating over the past half-century. Section 3, the part the challenge is based on, has been locked in a steamer trunk in the attic since the last real Confederate died. The 14th was an appeal for the country to change, if it had the guts to do so. It didn’t. And the result is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was the most non-credible person I've seen
on a witness stand in decades

But it's unlikely the 14th Amendment still has the strength left to bar her from Congress.

By Charles P. Pierce

April 22, 2022

Quote:

If I were a member of Congress, and let us all be thankful that I am not, I think I would remember whether the President* of the United States and I had a chat about the possibility that he would declare martial law in order to stay in office after he’d lost an election. That would be the kind of thing that would stick with a fella, I would think.

Unfortunately, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just couldn’t quite remember if she and the former president* had discussed the troops-in-the-street option prior to the insurrection on January 6, 2021. You know, she’s been really busy, what with being banned from Twitter and stripped of her committee assignments. You can’t expect her to remember every little detail of that chaotic time, like whether the president* and she talked about overthrowing the government by force of arms.


Do you believe President Trump should impose martial law to remain in power?

In those meetings, you discussed with him your advocacy for the idea that there should be martial law declared in the United States?

Did you ever advocate that any member should push for martial law?

Are you or any other congressional representatives advocating for martial law to stop the peaceful transition of power before the inauguration?


Twelve years of civics classes tell me that every member of Congress since Alexander Hamilton Stevens should be able to answer that question in the negative. Answering “yes” would be horrifying, but no longer a surprise. But Rep. Greene couldn’t remember any such discussion at all, and if any exchange typified the extended puppet show in Georgia on Friday, it was that one. She was facing an administrative court judge on a challenge by voters in her district that argues that Greene is disqualified from running for re-election because her involvement in the events of January 6 place her in violation of a provision of the 14th Amendment that states:


No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.


The whole thing is a long shot, but it’s one worth taking if it gives pause to any of the up-and-coming crazies who likely will be arriving in Washington next January. Of course, the only thing the administrative court can do is recommend actions to the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, who’s been a piñata ever since he refused to go along with the former president* two years ago, and who’s running for re-election at the moment.

Greene performed pretty much as expected: bellyaching about how mean CNN and Mother Jones have been to her, accusing the lawyers from the other side of barbering damaging video clips, disavowing social media entries from her own accounts, throwing out references to Antifa and BLM whenever she had the chance, and suffering terrible episodes of memory loss that cleared up only when her lawyers questioned her. And she had the cream of the wingnut legal community on duty—James Bopp, the big daddy of voter suppression and unlimited corporate money, and Kurt Hilbert, a local lawyer who’d been on the famous phone call in which the former president* asked Raffensperger to find him 11,000 votes. When Greene was suffering amnesia on the topic of martial law, Bopp leaped in with the most preposterous assertion of executive privilege in the history of recorded time. He was overruled, but he earned his money on Friday, for sure.

Greene was pretty plainly dealing throughout in barefaced non-facts. She was an objectively terrible witness on her own behalf, probably the most obviously non-credible person I’ve seen on a witness stand since I saw a Massachusetts bagman claim a senator who’d been paying him off for decades actually was extorting him. But it’s almost impossible to imagine this challenge actually succeeding. The poor, old 14th Amendment has taken a brutal beating over the past half-century. Section 3, the part the challenge is based on, has been locked in a steamer trunk in the attic since the last real Confederate died. The 14th was an appeal for the country to change, if it had the guts to do so. It didn’t. And the result is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39800589/marjorie-taylor-greene-testify-14th-amendment-challenge/?msclkid=b7ca782ac33e11ec8a472b71679bafad

That's the one. Good job.

Does make me wonder - where's Curly and Moe?

I think she's more the ass of the Republican party then the face.