Greene’s lawyers insist she didn’t incite violence and is instead ‘a victim’ of Jan. 6 riot

Lawyers representing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in a legal battle to keep her name on the primary ballot in Georgia argued in a court filing Friday that there’s no evidence the Republican lawmaker played a direct role in the Jan. 6 riot but has instead become a victim of the attack on the Capitol.

Greene’s attorneys asserted that Free Speech for People, an election and campaign finance reform organization, had advanced “a political smear campaign” against Republicans in its lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of Georgia voters seeking to remove Greene from the ballot.

“Rep. Greene was not a participant in the January 6th violence—she was a victim,” her attorneys said.

Free Speech for People say Greene should be disqualified from running for Congress, arguing she violated the Fourteenth Amendment by engaging in an insurrection.

“Greene’s words and actions—her efforts to delegitimatize the very government she was about to join, her violent imagery—were the kindling from which the January 6 insurrection exploded,” they wrote in a post-hearing memo Friday.

Georgia’s GOP primary is scheduled for May 24.

Greene’s lawyers said Friday that the legal challenge against her candidacy threatened to curtail First Amendment rights, was “profoundly undemocratic” and an infringement on voters’ rights.

They argued there is “absolutely no evidence” that Greene “committed any direct overt act of insurrection,” while insisting her speech did not qualify as incitement.

They further contended that Greene was not afforded traditional discovery, “to test the authenticity of their factual assertions.”