Lawsuit filed to remove GOP Rep. Scott Perry from Pennsylvania primary ballot
Liberal activist Gene Stilp has filed a seven-page lawsuit to remove Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry (R) from the state’s primary ballot.
Liberal activist Gene Stilp has filed a seven-page lawsuit to remove Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry (R) from the state’s primary ballot.
Pennsylvania’s primary election will be held on April 23, where Perry is seeking his seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 10th District. However, the lawsuit claims that Perry violated section three of the 14th Amendment, which bars anyone from holding office if they participated in an insurrection. The filing ascertains that Perry’s participation in attempting to install an attorney general willing to aid former President Donald Trump’s election fraud claims violates the 14th Amendment.
Perry is currently serving as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, a far-right group of representatives with close ties to Trump. Last August, the FBI seized Perry’s cell phone, and some of the representative’s messages were publicly revealed after a court filing last month. The records show Perry was deeply involved in pressuring the Department of Justice to investigate false election fraud claims while Trump attempted to install ally Jeffrey Clark as the U.S. attorney general.
Perry’s potential Democratic opponent Mike O’Brien made an X post Wednesday accusing Perry of helping incite an insurrection.
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