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Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene at America First rally in Florida (YouTube screenshot)

Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene at America First rally in Florida (YouTube screenshot)

A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene to sue two cities in California for canceling their 2021 political rallies, allegedly over disagreements with the congressional members’ “political views.”

However, the judge lambasted the duo for trying to sue a swath of civil rights groups they accused of conspiring with the two cities, calling such allegations a “conspiracy theory that relies purely on conjecture.”

The 22-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera, a President Joe Biden appointee, rejected motions from the cities of Anaheim and Riverside to have the lawsuit dismissed. The judge reasoned that Gaetz’s and Greene’s allegations were sufficient at the pleading stage to show the cancellations may have been based on the lawmakers’ political viewpoints.

“Plaintiffs adequately allege that the municipal defendants delegated to their respective agents the authority to cancel the rally (and/or ratified the relevant conduct after the fact) and that the event cancellations were expressly predicated on viewpoint discrimination,” the judge wrote.

Greene and Taylor filed the complaint against the cities in July 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California after several venues canceled planned political rallies amid pressure from local politicians and civic groups.

Gaetz, who represents Florida’s 1st congressional district, and Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, are known as political provocateurs. They are staunch supporters of Donald Trump and have repeatedly pushed the debunked conspiracy theory that the former president was the real winner of the 2020 election.

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