How Could This Have Happened: Marjorie Taylor Greene Now in Court over Insurrection Involvement

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has a stellar observe report of believing area lasers trigger wildfires and having utterly level-headed vaccine discussions on Twitter, however at present she is taking the stand to testify towards her involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol rebellion.

If none of this sounds acquainted, Greene is the outspoken Republican Congresswoman from Georgia who hasn’t been shy about her so far-right they’re unsuitable views on matters like masks and QAnon. Greene has been testifying in Atlanta concerning her involvement in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Whether you align along with her politics or not, what’s necessary right here is that she’s the primary lawmaker to testify beneath oath about their involvement within the assault that day and the result of this listening to may doubtlessly be precedent-setting. Greene has mentioned that she didn’t have any knowledge of any try to illegally intervene with the counting of electoral votes.

But Greene has been vocal in her beliefs that former President Donald Trump truly did win the 2020 election (he didn’t) in a landslide victory. She tweeted this morning previous to the trial:

Those difficult Greene are Georgia voters who filed the case with the Georgia Secretary of State final month. Greene filed an enchantment this week, which was rejected by District Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia. If convicted, Greene might be barred from holding any future authorities workplace positions based mostly on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which reads:

No individual shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or maintain any workplace, civil or army, beneath the United States, or beneath any State, who, having beforehand 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 government or judicial officer of any State, to help the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in rebellion or riot towards the identical, or given support or consolation to the enemies thereof. But Congress could by a vote of two-thirds of every House, take away such incapacity.

This case is a landmark case within the wake of the assault on the Capitol as Greene is the first of many Republican lawmakers with fees filed towards them.

Gizmodo will present updates on this story because the trial continues.