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Martin Pengelly in New York

Marjorie Taylor Greene: judge mulls move to bar Republican from Congress

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene salutes former president Donald Trump during a rally in Commerce, Georgia, on 26 March 2022.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene salutes former president Donald Trump during a rally in Commerce, Georgia, on 26 March 2022. Photograph: Alyssa Pointer/Reuters

A federal judge has indicated that an attempt to stop the far-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene running for re-election will be allowed to proceed.

The challenge from a group of Georgia voters says Greene should be disqualified under the 14th amendment to the US constitution, because she supported insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

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