Rep. Scott Perry, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in July.
A former Pennsylvania congressional candidate filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to remove Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry from the state primary ballot, arguing that Perry’s role challenging the results of the 2020 election should make him ineligible to run for office.
Gene Stilp filed the suit as a voter in Perry’s 10th District, calling on Secretary of State Al Schmidt to remove Perry from the ballot for engaging in insurrection.
The lawsuit mimics challenges to former President Donald Trump’s candidacy in several states, including in Colorado, where the state Supreme Court last month removed Trump from the ballot.
A campaign spokesperson for Perry called the lawsuit frivolous, “filed by a fringe activist whose claim to fame is an inflatable pink pig.”.
The lawsuit also requests a referral of “information of any possible criminal activity by Scott Perry or any other party discovered in this case to the Pennsylvania attorney general for prosecution.”.
Perry, who has been in office since 2013, is one of the few potentially vulnerable Republican members of Congress up for reelection in Pennsylvania this year. »