Tossed out of elected office and not allowed to serve or
seek public office based January 6 insurrection participation – NM case study
for the history books as it should apply to Trump henceforth as reported on from NEWSWEEK with this headline:
“Could January 6
Insurrection Disqualify Donald Trump's 2024 Run?”
Keep the below story in mind as it now applies to Trump
running in 2024 based on this article from CNN:
“New Mexico county
commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder removed from elected office for role
in Capitol riot”
Last week, the ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility
and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said it had written to Trump informing him it
intends to seek his disqualification if he announces his presidential bid for the
2024 election.
CREW, which uses “aggressive legal action to hold government officials accountable,” asserted Trump should be disqualified from serving public office for his actions during the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol, referencing the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Noah Bookbinder, president of CREW, stated in a press
release that the organization's message for the former president is clear: “If
you seek office despite being disqualified under the Constitution for engaging
in insurrection, we and others loyal to the Constitution will defend it.”
CREW’s argument is based
on Section 3 of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution which bars any
official “Who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution from engaging in
insurrection or rebellion or giving aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Bookbinder wrote in
his letter to the former president that when he entered into office on January 20,
2017: “That he swore a sacred oath to defend the Constitution.”
A New Mexico State judge (49
page court record) has removed a January 6 rioter, “Cowboys for Trump”
founder Couy Griffin from his elected position as a county commissioner
for his role in that January 6 attack on the Nation’s Capitol.
New Mexico State Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his ruling: “The irony of Mr. Griffin’s argument that this Court should refrain from applying the law and consider the will of the people in District Two of Otero County who retained him as a county commissioner against a recall effort as he attempts to defend his participation in an insurrection by a mob whose goal, by his own admission, was to set aside the results of a free, fair and lawful election by a majority of the people of the entire country (the will of the people) has not escaped this Court.”
Judge
Mathew concluded: “Griffin’s attempts to sanitize his actions are without
merit and amount to nothing more than attempting to put lipstick on a pig.”
Griffin is an ardent
conspiracy theorist who refused to certify the state’s primary election results
this summer in Otero County, told CNN after the court ruling: “That he has
been ordered to clean out his office and attacked the judge as being tyrannical.”
Griffin then added: “I’m
shocked. Just shocked. I really did not feel like the state was going to move
on me in such a way. I don’t know where I go from here.”
Griffin and his organization “Cowboys for Trump” spent months normalizing the violence necessary to keep Trump in office. He urged supporters to travel to Washington, DC, on January 6.
Judge Mathew wrote that included multiple inflammatory public speeches in which Griffin “Likened the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement to a war to keep Trump in office.”
The ruling was the result
of a lawsuit seeking Griffin’s removal, which alleged that he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by participating in an “insurrection against
the government.”
Griffin also was convicted of trespassing earlier this year. In that
ruling in June, a DC federal judge sentenced Griffin to 14 days behind
bars with time served and one year of supervised release after he was found
guilty of trespassing on Capitol grounds during the riot.
Now, this historic ruling
represents the first time an elected official has been removed from office for
their participation in, or support of the Nation’s Capitol attack.
This also marks the first
time a judge has formally ruled that January 6, 2021 was an “insurrection.”
This disqualification comes after unsuccessful challenges against prominent Trump supporters in Congress and many Trump-backed candidates for state offices across the country in the 2022 midterm election.
Now, Griffin, one of three commissioners in Otero County, is also barred from holding any state or federal elected position in the future.
My 2 Cents: First this note: My earlier post (same subject) follows this post and there may be some duplication in format and style - but the info is basically the same (my oops).
Current post: This in my opinion sets the standard clearly and
legally for Trump to be disqualified from even running for any elected office letting
alone ever serving in any from any public office henceforth.
We shall see and if this happens to move forward in any form it is more than likely than not to end up the USSC door steps, and then – well, hang on tight.
Justice must be served to prove once and for all the national standard of: “No one is above the law” applies to Donald J. Trump as well.
Stay tuned, thanks for stopping by.
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