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Cawthorn recently asked a federal court for an injunction -- to keep him from having to testify about his actions on Jan. 6 in front of a five-person panel appointed by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

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He told ABC News he takes the effort to have him disqualified very \"seriously\" and said it can have \"major implications down the road.\"

In his legal filing, Cawthorn said \"running for political office is quintessential First Amendment activity and afforded great protection,\" that the North Carolina challenge statute is unconstitutional, that the disqualification provision citied applied only soon after the Civil War and that Congress has the ultimate power to decide his eligibility for office.

He has said in a statement the statute is \"being used as a weapon by liberal Democrats to attempt to defeat our democracy by having state bureaucrats, rather than the People, choose who will represent North Carolina in Congress. I'm defending not only my rights, but the right of the People to democratically elect their representatives.\"

In a response filing, the North Carolina State Board of Elections argued it should be allowed to look into the challenges to protect the integrity of state elections.

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Other elected officials believed to have been involved in or who encouraged the events that played out on Jan. 6 could face similar challenges.

\"The provisions of Section Three in the 14th Amendment are very expansive in scope, and it would certainly encompass anybody,\" he said. If former President Donald Trump tried to run for office again \"and wanted to be on the ballot in North Carolina, he would arguably face that exact same challenge,\" Orr said.

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\"Under the Supremacy Clause of Article Six, every state has the obligation to enforce federal law and part of federal law is the Constitution, and part of the Constitution is Section Three of the 14th Amendment, which is relevant to someone's eligibility to run for office as anything else,\" Tribe said.

Ron Fein, a lawyer also representing the voters hoping to get Cawthorn disqualified -- and Legal Director of Free Speech For the People, a self-described pro-democracy organization -- says his group plans to bring similar challenges against other elected officials.

\"We at Free Speech For People are looking at other congressional candidates, state candidates and, of course, Donald Trump if he decides to run for office, again, because the reach of the 14th Amendment's insurrectionist Disqualification Clause could potentially include quite a few of them.\"

Fein said Cawthorn \"won't be the last\" but did not get more specific.

Asked about the party affiliation of those he's representing, Fein said it was a nonpartisan effort and the voters hadn't been asked to reveal that.

The procedural framework for such challenges differs by state. In North Carolina, for example, a challenge is filed with the state board of elections, while in other states, it is filed with a state secretary or directly in court.

But Fein said one constant is that \"the 14th Amendment and the insurrectionist Disqualification Clause apply everywhere.\"

ABC News' Benjamin Siegel contributed to this report.

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