If North Carolina can block Cawthorn using the Constitution, why can't others do the same.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

North Carolina elections board asserts power to bar Cawthorn from 2022 ballot

"The Civil War-era 14th Amendment to the Constitution has a provision that was intended at the time to bar Confederate traitors from Congress.

"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,” it reads, “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. ”

These flaming racists are trying to win the Civil War STILL!!

https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/madison-cawthorn/

[blueinredohio]

1. Like Gym Jordan for example.

[madville]

2. I think he would need to be charged and convicted

Of a related crime for them to seriously consider using that and dealing with the legal challenge it would initiate.

[Emile]

3. After 1/6 committee reveals all the traitors, I like to think

they will not be on any ballot, instead they'll be behind bars!

[dsc]

4. If he is banned it will be under the state law that enforces that ban

and in NC that law requires the challenged person to prove they are fit not the other way around. It is usually used for things like having been living in the area not being a felon etc.

[onenote]

5. We're a long way from knowing whether NC can block Cawthorn

NC asserts they have authority. The courts will decide if they do.

[brooklynite]

6. Being convicted and jailed does not stop someone from running for office.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. But,

I think that is why there is sectiin 3 of the 14th Amendment.

"Section 3.
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. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

The end of that about "disability" confuses me.