3492, the Gun-owner Registration Information Protection Act (GRIP Act), legislation that prohibits states, localities, or any other organization from using federal funding to maintain gun registries. (AZ-09) has issued the following statement in response to introducing H.R. Subscribe to today.WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. The same lawyer Cawthorn used, James Bopp, is scheduled to argue Friday for a restraining order preventing Georgia authorities from striking Greene from the ballot in that state. Fein said his group is appealing that decision. 'Finchem - who later denied or obfuscated his actions of January 6 - advanced with the crowd near to the steps of the Capitol as it was being overrun, took a picture outside the Capitol among the violent mob just moments after the Capitol was breached, and Tweeted his support while the insurrection was ongoing,' the suit notes.Ĭawthorn got the case against him dismissed by turning to a federal judge who ruled that an 1872 amnesty law for confederates passed by Congress would apply to Cawthorn and others, too. In the Finchem case, the group notes his presence at the Capitol as the pro-Trump mob rioted inside. In the Biggs case, the group notes that he worked with Gosar to further the same plans to prevent Biden from taking office. 6 called Gosar the 'spirit animal' of the effort in a since-deleted video posted before the riot. The group called Gosar a leader of the movement promoting the false claims of a stolen election, and said he worked with 'violent extremists, on a plan to delegitimize, challenge, and ultimately overturn the results of the presidential election.'Īli Alexander, the organizer of the 'Stop the Steal' effort that was in Washington on Jan. It notes the allegation that he sought blanket pardons for people involved in the rally for unrelated criminal probes. Gosar, for example, is faulted for his pre-attack participation in a rally near the White House and 'publicly supported the insurrection as it was happening' on his social media channels, the 36-page suit claims. Mark Finchem, a member of Arizona House of Representatives, attends the Senate hearing on the progress of the election audit in Maricopa County at the Arizona Senate in Phoenix on July 15, 2021.Įach case includes challenges from would-be constituents and lays out the arguments against each man.

In a tweet Thursday referencing the lawsuits, Finchem wrote, 'I am in good company. Neither Biggs nor Finchem could be immediately reached for comment. 'The lawyers behind it should be disbarred for abusing the courts.” It’s been dismissed everywhere they tried it because it is factually and legally baseless,' McShane said. Rory McShane, a Gosar campaign consultant, said the case is absurd. 'They were far more concerned about the political leaders than with the privates who had been conscripted into the Confederate army.' 'When the Republican Congress that drafted the 14th Amendment included this provision in the Constitution, they understood that it was meant to apply to the leadership of the Confederate insurrection,' he said. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to examine a Republican-led Arizona audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona's most populous county, Maricopa, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct.

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