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Posted: 2022-04-27T19:47:01Z | Updated: 2022-04-27T19:47:01Z

Critics hoping to keep Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off the ballot for her role in inciting the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol are asking a judge to consider a newly released text message she wrote about former President Donald Trump declaring Marshall law to remain in office.

Backed by the group Free Speech for People, four residents of the first-term Republicans district are asking an administrative law judge to rule her ineligible for reelection because the 14th Amendment prohibits insurrectionists from holding office.

In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall [sic] law, Greene wrote in the Jan. 17, 2021, message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, apparently misspelling the term martial law.

I dont know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him, her text message continued. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!

The text was among 2,300 messages that Meadows turned over to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot that were subsequently released to CNN on Monday. They detail the various ways Meadows was helping Trump overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden .

Greene testified for three hours last week at a hearing in Atlanta where she repeated Trumps lies about the 2020 election being stolen through massive voter fraud. She denied having advocated violence, despite social media video evidence to the contrary, and said she did not recall having pushed for martial law.