North Carolina says it can block Madison Cawthorn from ballot if he took part in insurrection

On Monday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections released a court filing that said it had the power to block Rep. Madison Cawthorn(R-North Carolina) from running for another term. They stated that they could do this under the “disqualification act” found in Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. “States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges,” the board wrote. “The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The case is still ...