Former President Donald Trump isn’t the only candidate facing legal action to remove him from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment — far-right Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) is as well.
According to ABC 27, Harrisburg-area activist and former congressional candidate Gene Stilp filed the lawsuit, which seeks to have Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt disqualify the lawmaker.
“The lawsuit alleges Perry helped push conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen and advanced efforts to replace the Attorney General with a Trump loyalist,” reported George Stockburger. “‘Scott Perry was a leading proponent of using the January 6, 2021 Congressional presidential election certification process to disrupt the transfer of presidential administration from Trump to Biden,’ says the lawsuit, [citing] the FBI’s seizure of Perry’s cellphone records and other accusations made against Perry following the January 6 attack.”
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Stilp is also seeking to send any information on possible criminal activity “by Scott Perry or any other party discovered in this case” to the Pennsylvania Attorney General for potential prosecution.
Recent reports have revealed the extent of Perry’s strategy sessions on blocking certification of the election with figures like former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who was indicted alongside the former president in Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis’ racketeering case.
Trump has so far been ordered disqualified from primary ballots in Colorado and Maine, although both decisions are on hold. The Supreme Court is nearly certain to take up the question of how the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on candidates who engaged in insurrection can be enforced.