Effort Underway to Challenge Insurrectionists’ Right to Run for Public Office

Interview with Ben Horton, a Harvard Law School Public Service Venture Fund fellow at the group Free Speech for People, conducted by Scott Harris

Ben Horton talks about the filing of a legal challenge to North Carolina U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s 2022 candidacy, that alleges that Cawthorn is constitutionally disqualified from public office under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on reasonable suspicion that he helped facilitate the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. This challenge could be applied to any candidate who is suspected of being involved in the insurrection plot.

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