Madison Cawthorn's lawyer argues that states can't enforce age and residency rules for congressional candidates
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A lawyer for embattled GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn argued Tuesday in federal court that states can't enforce basic age or residency requirements for congressional candidates, let alone enforce a constitutional ban against insurrectionists from holding office.
James Bopp Jr. pushed this maximalist view at a hearing of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which is reviewing a lower-court order that shut down a candidacy challenge filed by several of Cawthorn's constituents in North Carolina. Their challenge tried to block Cawthorn from running for re-election because of the Civil War-era "disqualification clause" in the 14th Amendment.
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