Raleigh, NC: A formal challenge of North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorne’s qualification to run for Congress when she attended a rally last January before the US Capitol riot will be delayed as separate redistribution litigation continues, state judges said. Judgment pronounced on Tuesday.
Three judges presiding over the redistribution test approved a motion by the state election board to postpone the candidate’s challenges for now.
Without a formal stay, the Board of Elections will meet Wednesday to form a special panel of county board members to hear the Cawthorne challenge filed Monday by 11 voters from the recently drafted 13th Congressional District. would to. Based on state law, that panel would otherwise have had to decide by February 9, the ruling said. Wednesday’s meeting has now been cancelled.
The judges wrote that this and other candidate challenges might otherwise need to be duplicated, with the redistribution appeal process ultimately leading to the formation of new district maps. This could mean that some candidates cannot run for a particular district, or that a challenge panel member is not eligible to hear a case because a district has been reconfigured.
No date has been set for when challenge proceedings will resume, but a separate decision on Tuesday by judges upholding the legislative and congressional maps asked state election officials to file candidates again on February 24. told to start.
Voters challenging Cawthorne’s candidacy said the first-time Republican can’t run because it fails to comply with a part of the 14th Amendment. The provision states that no one can serve in Congress who has previously been sworn in as a member of Congress. , , To support the Constitution of the United States of America, would be engaged in rebellion or rebellion against the same.
Cawthorne’s office strongly criticized the challenge, saying voters backed by a national electoral reform group were comically misinterpreting the 14th Amendment.
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