Adding salt to the wound of U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s recent primary election loss, an federal appeals court found a Civil War-era amnesty law should not protect candidates from a constitutional amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding political office. 

Tuesday’s decision does little for Cawthorn, who lost his primary fight after a series of scandals saw the Trump-era conservative fall from grace. Still, it’s the first appeals court to answer questions around the 1872 Amnesty Act, and it could mean bad news for other Jan. 6-adjacent elected officials, such as Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who won Tuesday’s primary election.

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