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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in the House of Representatives for just over a year.
She was removed from the commissions in which she participated and one of her Twitter accounts was suspended.
Still, she is one of the most recognizable faces in the Republican Party, identified, among other factors, by her past support of conspiracy theories like QAnon's.
Now, she faces a possible disqualification from being a candidate again for her alleged support of the January 6 agitators.
Here's a look at her profile.
This week, a judge cleared the way for an attempt to disqualify her so that Greene, 47, a representative from a Georgia state district, could not run for re-election.
The measure, promoted by a coalition of liberal groups, is based on the accusation that he supported the agitators who took over the Capitol on January 6, 2021, while the results of the elections that gave the Presidency to Joe Biden were certified.
A provision of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution holds that any American official who swears to uphold the Constitution is disqualified from holding any future office if he "participates in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or renders aid or relief to its enemies."
In this context, Taylor Greene is expected to participate in a court hearing in Atlanta as a witness, in what would be the first time that a legislator has pronounced under oath on his involvement with the insurrection.
(This, by the way, could have impact beyond this congresswoman's case, because, as CNN's Marshall Cohen explains here, similar challenges are pending against other Republicans and could even be brought against former President Donald Trump if he runs again in court.) 2024).
Marjorie Taylor Greene during a Donald Trump campaign rally in Wellington, Ohio, on June 26, 2021. (Credit: Stephen Zenner/AFP/Getty Images)
Ostracized from Congress and Twitter, but well known
The House of Representatives voted in February 2021 to remove Taylor Greene from the committees he sat on, just over a month after he had taken office.
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The measure was approved by 230 votes in favor and 199 against, and had the support of 11 Republicans.
The decision came after violent statements made by the congresswoman in 2018 and 2019 were uncovered, in which she repeatedly supported the execution of high-ranking Democratic politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In a January 2019 post, for example, Taylor Greene "liked" a comment that "a bullet to the head would be quicker" to remove Pelosi.
By then, multiple conspiracy theories and violent comments by the congresswoman were already known, who, among other things, has maintained extreme anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
In the session in which her removal was voted, the Republican defended herself by distancing herself from several of the conspiracy theories that she had previously supported.
Twitter, for its part, "permanently suspended" one of Taylor Greene's verified accounts this year for "repeated violations of the covid-19 disinformation policy", although it continues to have access to other accounts.
The tweet that triggered the ban included a misleading graph purporting to show deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines, which Greene says have been ignored, according to a person familiar with the Twitter decision.
Despite these measures, Taylor Greene is one of the most recognizable Republicans in the country.
She has a constant presence in the conservative media and has raised more than US$8 million since 2021, according to figures from the Federal Election Commission.
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From QAnon to Pizzagate: A Review of the Conspiracies It Supported
There is a long list of debunked conspiracy theories that Taylor Greene espoused before he took office as a congressman.
One of the main ones is QAnon, which pits Trump against Trump in an imaginary battle against Democrats and celebrities who worship Satan and abuse children, although in August 2020 he tried to distance himself by claiming that he did not represent it.
In 2017, he touted the "Pizzagate" conspiracy, which alleges that Clinton and other Democratic Party leaders ran a human trafficking and pedophilia ring from a Washington pizza parlor.
But these are not the only ones.
That same year Greene also promoted the "Clinton Body Count," a conspiracy that falsely alleges that the Clintons have murdered some of their associates.
Greene also supported 9/11 conspiracies and falsely claimed there was no evidence a plane had crashed into the Pentagon, according to a Media Matters report.
In this regard, the congresswoman told Congress in 2021 that the attack happened and that "it is a tragedy that someone says that it did not happen."
Taylor Greene claimed mass shootings are 'set up'
While spreading violent conspiracy theories on the internet, Taylor Greene often speculated on whether the violent events in the real world were part of a deeper conspiracy and were actually false flag operations - acts designed to appear specifically carried out by others. individuals or groups.
In 2018, for example, he questioned whether the Parkland shooting that killed 17 people was a planned event, saying one of the survivors, David Hogg, was a "paid actor."
In 2021, videos of her harassing Hogg surfaced.
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Greene also supported comments on Facebook in 2018 alleging that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in which six adults and 20 children were killed, was a "set up."
When Congress voted to remove her from the commissions in which she participated, Taylor Greene also referred to this issue, stating that the shootings are "absolutely real."
"We are the weaker sex, the wife of our husband"
Another issue where Taylor Greene's comments have generated controversy is the gender issue.
Recently, in an exchange during Justice Ketanji Brown's confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court in which she was asked to define what a woman is, Taylor Greene spoke about her own definition.
"We are a creation of God. We come from Adam's rib, God created us with his hand. Maybe we are the weaker sex, we are the weaker sex, we are from our husband," she said.
Last year, the congresswoman put up an anti-transgender sign outside her office, directly across from the office of another representative who has a transgender daughter.
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Impeach Biden and remove Fauci, among the projects he sponsors
Since arriving in Congress, Taylor Greene has sponsored nearly 20 bills.
Among them, at least three were seeking impeachment of Biden.
Others covered topics as diverse as awarding Kyle Rittenhouse and the police officers who served during several Black Lives Matter marches congressional gold medals, a bill to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the to kick Fauci out."
He also sponsored a project that sought to prohibit any discrimination based on having received or not received the covid-19 vaccine.
With reporting from CNN's Marshall Cohen, Chris Cilliza, Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski, Donie O'Sullivan, Daniel Dale, Clare Foran, Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer.
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