North Carolina Elections Board Says It Has Authority to Block Rep. Cawthorn From Seeking Re-election

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In a Monday court filing, the North Carolina board of elections said it maintains the authority to block Rep. Madison Cawthorn from seeking another term in Congress over his activities leading up to the Jan. 6th Capitol riot.

The Hill reports:

“The State does not judge the qualifications of the elected members of the U.S. House of Representative. It polices candidate qualifications prior to the elections,” the board wrote in a filing to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Cawthorn.

“In doing so, as indicated above, States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges. The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the board added.

The Congressman filed a lawsuit after a group of 11 North Carolina voters began attempting to have him barred from seeking re-election.

Leading up to the riot, Cawthorn repeated former President Trump’s false election fraud claims and spoke at a rally hours before the riot began. Opponents of Cawthorn say he engaged in the insurrection, which disqualifies him from office because it violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

“Running for office is not only a great privilege, it is a right protected under the Constitution,” Cawthorn said when filing his lawsuit. “I love this country and have never engaged in, or would ever engage in, an insurrection against the United States. Regardless of this fact, the Disqualification clause and North Carolina’s Challenge Statute is being used as a weapon by liberal Democrats to attempt to defeat our democracy by having state bureaucrats, rather than the People, choose who will represent North Carolina in Congress.”

So far, Rep. Cawthorn is planning to run for re-election.



  1. Weak indecision in our Country leadership has lead to the turmoil that now exist on the world stage. The major power brokers in Russia and China now see the United States void of leadership with Biden and his band of misfits at the helm, they are correct in their thinking. Here we have a family who has taken money from these adversaries and promised what in return? They have compromised the world peace structure for personal gain. Think, Biden is hoping for war, to avoid resolving issues they created, which are now above his capability to resolve. He has surrounded his office with like minded in affected creatures who lack the brains and ability to compete on the world stage. These people have lied to Congress, broken’s established laws, spent money with out the approval of Congress, left lives and material on the battlefields which was not theirs to waste, and today have avoided any responsibility for their actions, but guess what 2022 midterms are just around the corner and the American people will have they say, impeachment and jail will be in the cards for their abuse of power and neglect to honor their oaths.

    1. Your right on. These rotten ass Biden Crime family along with his idiot sidekick need to do some time for , you talk about insurrection , these damn communists are the worst. I favor Hanging and throwing them to the sharks.

    1. The queer governor who doesn’t know which bathroom to use, and all his whigger and jungle rabbit buddies need to be thrown out of office. NC needs governors like the late Jesse Helms or Strom Thurmond who put up with no mess from the jungle.

  2. BULLSHIFT U have no authority at all to stop him. U can try, but it will be all in vain, your power hungry control will be your downfall, in a red tsunami.

  3. Sounds like the Democrat are afraid of this candidate.
    They will do or say anything if you do not agree with them.
    They also believe their lies are fine if it prevents you from
    winning. Ask Harry Reed.When asked about his lies about
    Romney he said, he didn’t win did he???

  4. North Carolina is really on the verge of becoming a shit hole state. Hope they’re happy with all their invaders from the liberal blue shit hole states that are bringing their shit hole politics with them. They should of stayed in their stupid corrupt states!!!! DEMONKRAPS are EVIL THROUGH AND THROUGH. This kid should fight as hard as he can.

  5. The different governments in our country, whether it be Federal, State, or local, have all become as CORRUPT as hell. They all try to use the laws against anything they don’t like. And if a law doesn’t exist, they make one up.

    Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. They are one level below attorneys. And I am talking about ALL politicians – not just Democrat politicians.

  6. The “board” will be handily shut down once Cawthorn goes to court over such a ruling. Guess the “board” hasn’t heard of the First Amendment. Stating that we should “fight” does not necessarily mean violence (unless you are a DIMMwit).

  7. This site is implying that they agree with NC election board where as Rep. Cawthorne voiced “HIS RIGHT” to say the election was not right. I also say the election was STOLEN from PRESIDENT TRUMP. By the way…how’s Biden doing? How has he helped this country? Can’t say, can you.

    1. Let’s Go Brandon. This dumbass Biden now thinks his name is Brandon.. where are all you assholes that voted for this corrupt bastard. Put your Biden signs up in your yard so the illegals know where to go to spend the night . Rape your daughters and maybe murder your stupid asses…

  8. This is ridiculous – Jan 6 riot was mostly made up of BLM & Antifa – certainly no GOP Congressmen were there nor was Trump. The FBI knew in advance there was going to be something happening & had an undercover person there at the same time. Pelosi knew too & refused more police as well as National Guard – rejecting people who stood by Trump is bad business & will be worse if he is re-elected!

  9. Well than Pelosi, Waters and Harris and the rest of their goonies are ineligible for reelection calling for hate and violence bailing out antifa and BLM rioters causing an insurrection on America

  10. Madison Cawthorn is being used for a political agenda because this state has one of those Communist supporting Governors. Roy Cooper supports China. Thank God this is his last term in office as we have term limits here. Cawthorn is a target because he works for and supports the people of the State. I don’t live in his District but if I did I would VOTE FOR HIM.

  11. If N. Carolina wants to try to enforce that, then Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders and a host of other DemocRATs are in the same boat!
    Biden has allowed an invasion of the USA under his watch….he would have to go also!

  12. No they don’t! Just because of hate for Republicans and their push to help put America back into SLAVERY and think their ABOVE THE LAW they can do whatever they want and get AWAY WITH IT! THIS IS A TRUE SIGN OF WHITE PRIVILEGE!

  13. I can’t believe that you censored my comment, this must be another liberal censoring site, no free speech and not allowing the truth to come out when it goes against the liberal narrative and the Democrats’ propaganda and lies. I’m gone, unsubscribe time.

  14. We are NEVER going to hear the end of January 6th!! I am so sick and tired of the hypocrisy of the DemoCreeps! They are so damned self-righteous with their TIRED rhetoric about the “attack on American democracy”!!! The DemoCreeps have NOTHING to run on except to go and on about January 6th. The problem, here, is that the Dems jumped on the golden opportunity to infiltrate what was meant to be a. peaceful protest with members of BLM and Antifa, PLUS those in the D.O.J. They put on red MAGA caps and wreaked total havoc, all under the guise of being Trump supporters. I guess it was an ingenious idea of the Dems to orchestrate a “coup” and blame it on Trump. What else are we supposed to believe, when Pelosi and Bowser REFUSED Trump’s offer to send in the National Guard? The Guard would have RUINED their plans for violence and chaos! And in the months to follow, we will hear about NOTHING BUT THE “INSURRECTION” on January 6th! And when you think about Summer of 2020, which Antifa and BLM were MURDERING people, beating people up, burning down entire downtown areas…..it was unimaginable what those maniacs did!!! Yet ONE incident of protest on Jan. 6th from the Right and you would think BLM and Antifa were church groups!!
    The Democrat party only knows cheating and lying to achieve their goals. But it makes one’s blood boil to think about their smugness and indignation about January 6th when THEY ARE THE ONES TO BLAME.

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