| Whatever hope remains for the Georgia congresswoman’s many detractors seems to depend on either a new lawsuit or a candidate who’s been called “Marjorie with a brain.”  Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker Rome, a small city in the rural and deeply red Fourteenth Congressional District of northwest Georgia, is not the place most people picture when they think of “Rome.” The city is represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vocal Republican and former CrossFit coach who once professed support for executing prominent Democrats. It’s where the reporter Charles Bethea met John Cowan, a neurosurgeon who, in 2020, lost a Republican primary runoff to Greene—Cowan likes to call her “Empty G.” Cowan isn’t planning to run again this fall, but there are at least five candidates who are vying to unseat Greene. Among them, there’s the Democrat Marcus Flowers, a “Black, cowboy-hat-wearing Army veteran,” whose campaign raked in sixty thousand dollars recently when Greene spoke to a “Putin!”-chanting white-nationalist gathering. And then there’s the strongest Republican in the field, Jennifer Strahan, a health-care executive who describes herself as “all the conservative without any of the crazy.” Strahan remains a long shot, but in a scoop today, Bethea reveals a new challenge to Greene—a lawsuit, filed this morning, arguing that Greene is an insurrectionist. “Were it to be successful,” Bethea writes, it “would prevent Greene from running for office again.” —Jessie Li, newsletter editor | 
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