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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusers say she lied under oath in insurrection case

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for voters seeking to use the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist clause to block Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s return to Congress accused her of lying at a hearing last week and asked the judge to allow new evidence — a text she sent to ex-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

Attorneys for Free Speech for People, an advocacy group, said in a brief filed Friday that the text proves Greene, R-Ga., was dishonest when she testified she couldn’t recall advocating for Trump to invoke martial law after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill.

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