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Posted: 2022-04-30T21:27:53Z | Updated: 2022-05-01T13:08:53Z

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) provided demonstrably false testimony on the stand at a hearing meant to determine whether her reelection campaign is unconstitutional, attorneys for her opponents said in a Friday court filing.

Greene has been targeted by a small group of voters in her district, which lies outside Atlanta, who say that she violated a provision of the 14th Amendment by advocating for insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. The voters are represented by Free Speech for People, a nonprofit group that works to promote fair elections.

For more than three hours on April 22, the extremist congresswoman largely dodged questions from attorneys asking about her past statements, providing little to no evidence to contradict the claims against her.

Greene told her supporters repeatedly, and falsely, that Donald Trump had won the 2020 presidential election instead of Joe Biden and encouraged them to take part in efforts to overturn the results, which culminated in the deadly attack on the Capitol.

Some of Greenes comments were contained in videos or posts that had since been deleted from social media; she refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of videos shown to her in court.

She hid behind her purported lack of memory, incredibly claiming during her testimony that she could not answer at least 80 of Petitioners questions because she did not recall or could not remember, read the filing by Greenes opponents.