The New Mexico Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from “Cowboys for Trump” founder Couy Griffin to overturn a decision that barred him from holding public office for life under the 14th Amendment’s Disqualification Clause.
HA!
The Supreme Court ruled that Griffin failed to follow proper appeals procedures.
The whole notion of “Cowboys for Trump” is redundant.
“Griffin appealed the decision to the New Mexico Supreme Court on Sept. 20; the case was dismissed on Tuesday afternoon on procedural grounds.”
Hah! Dismissed on a technicality! The cowardly NMSC refuses to deal with the real issue.
We wuz robbed, I tells ya!
This is a start but not enough.
After 10 years in prison he should be able to find a country that will take in assholes.
He does not belong in Our Country.
ERROR ALERT:
Couy Griffin was not disqualified from holding office by a federal judge.
The tipoff to that error is that he appealed to the state supreme court.
And the only reason Griffin got himself disqualified is that he’s too stupid to hire an actual attorney who knows law stuff. So hooray for dipshittery!
The September ruling was not by a federal judge, but by a state court.
Let’s hear it for New Mexico!
Let’s standardize these consequences for insurrectionists.
And, in the same related vein, I would like to see the US House refuse to seat convicted insurrectionists who won seats in the recent election.
Given that Rs will most likely rule, it’s unlikely. But perhaps in a few years!
Dammit, this is a violation of his amendment rights! Which amendment? Well all of them, Katie!
As Trump is himself proving, this is no country for old farts. (Biden is old but he’s no fart.)
We need a forensic audit now, damnit, now!
This is great news for New Mexico!
We don’t need no elitist lawyer-y stuff! Real Amuricans know what’s noble and true (and therefore Constitutional)! HANG MIKE PENCE! WHERE’S NANCY? BRING BACK OUR KING/SAVIOR AND PUT THAT IMPOSTER “PRESIDENT” IN JAIL!!
See, that wasn’t hard now was it? Now do the rest of them, FFS.
Real lawyers have legal briefs. Insurrectionists drop their briefs and take a dump on the floors of the capitol.
Well, he can become a Sovereign Citizen, stop recognizing the Guvmint , and name himself mayor of his backyard…
The highest appellate court is not called the Supreme Court in every state. In Massachusetts, it’s called the Supreme Judicial Court (as opposed to the legislature, which is the General Court). In New York, the Supreme Court is a trial-level court with general jurisdiction, including an appellate division. (All those murder trials on Law & Order are held in a Supreme Court.) NY’s Court of Appeals (where my daughter clerked) is its highest court.
NY’s terminology has the virtue of reminding people that the highest court is almost exclusively for appeals. Its “Supreme Court” terminology is a bit confusing, given the use of that name in other contexts, but it has the virtue of reminding you that it’s not the court for resolving disputes over traffic tickets or challenges to a will. MA does it best. Its terminology (inherited from its days as a British colony) invites you, if you’re so inclined, to think about what a “court” is, about sovereignty and where it is invested (in “we the people,” no longer in the British monarch), and about a legislature’s capacity to act as a trial court (since Solon, but British practice is the actual origin of this).
There’s an episode of Law & Order where a fancy Florida lawyer comes to NYC to defend a neo-Nazi type. The most unrealistic part of the story: fancy out-of-state lawyer does not have a NY-bar lawyer working with him, so he gets tricked by Sam Waterston on an important procedural matter because he doesn’t know the names of NYC’s counties.
Don’t some states also have “Superior Courts”, adding to the confusion?