The attorney defending Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene against a lawsuit seeking to disqualify her from appearing on the 2022 midterm ballot for supporting the 6 January insurrection attempted to block her from answering a question about whether she discussed the invocation of martial law with former president Donald Trump by invoking “executive privilege”.
Ms Greene, a first-term Republican, was undergoing questioning by Andrew Cell, an attorney representing a group of Georgia voters who say she should be prohibited from serving in Congress by a clause in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution which says anyone who has “engaged in insurrection” after swearing an oath to defend the constitution cannot be a senator or representative, when she was asked if she ever discussed her “advocacy for the idea that there should be martial law declared in the United States” during meetings with Mr Trump.
