It’s official: A political official has been kicked out of office for getting involved in the January 6th insurrection A New Mexico judge on Tuesday ordered Couy Griffin, an Otero County Commissioner, to be removed from his elected office for participating in the attack.
Maybe he can trade his horse for legal advice.
And fr!!$t!
A judge who didn’t cop out and use the “I’ll let the voters decide.” Truthfully, I’m shocked.
Judge Francis J. Mathew is my hero today. Hopefully many more of these traitors run into judges who can read the plain language in our Constitution.
Well, there are horses, and then there are horse’s asses…
“Judge Francis J. Mathew ruled that Griffin violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the Disqualification Clause, which prohibits anyone who ‘hold[s] any office, civil or military, under the United States’ from engaging in ‘insurrection or rebellion’ against the country.”
Now do Trump. MTG, and the rest of the Stoopid Shaman mob.
“I didn’t break anything. I didn’t assault anybody,” he said in his opening statement. “I just walked up to the top of the Capitol.
But photographic evidence suggested otherwise: Goldberg presented pictures of Griffin scaling a wall to get closer to the Capitol building.
Remember the song by Shaggy, “It wasn’t me”.
“She even caught me on camera (Nah, it wasn’t me)”
Why do we celebrate when a judge does his or her job?
Hurrah for New Mexico from a resident since 1985!
“Why do we celebrate when a judge does his or her job?”
Because to a great extent these are as much political as legal matters.
That is as Donald Trump keeps proving so long as you have money, the legal system can be made to work for you one way or the other. Hence Republicans have learned to deal with everything as political and not legal matters.
The question have Democrats finally, after 40 years, figured this out. If they have they, candidates and already elected officials, will make a big deal out of this claiming that other Republicans are not qualified to hold office.
Furthermore, they will make this argument NOT as a legal but as a political matter.
The guy looks like a putz at a Dude Ranch. What’s he going to rope on that street? Parking meters? Just look at that clown.
Years ago I was sitting on a bench across from Hôtel Landron in Paris ( Where Thomas Jefferson spent his time there ) and a kid asked me if I was a Cowboy. I wear western boots and in the rain as it was that day a leather Stetson hat. I told him no. Because that hat and boots don’t make me one.
My deceased father in law used to say there were more of the latter than of the former.
Hell yes. Fuckin’ aye, finally some common sense. Now that the precedent has been set, let’s kick every one of the motherfuckers out and let Uncle Thomas blow a fucking gasket over it.
Yes! Here is the dilemma that I pose:
How do the Dems oppose the GOP’s politicization of the courts without politicizing them further?
OTH, there’s something to be said about widely circulated praise for decisions by Courts that respect the Rule of Law…
Hopefully, Griffin will be the first in a stream of defrocked public officials found to have participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Judge Francis J. Mathew ruled that Griffin violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
Is the 14th Amendment deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions?
Why criticize Thomas when Alito is the prime actor?
I like this inconsistency between Griffin’s testimony and the facts in evidence:
Testimony: Griffin rebutted by saying that he went to D.C. to peacefully protest the “illegitimate election results.”
Evidence: Griffin had brought multiple firearms with him to Washington, D.C. on the day of the attack,
When do we get to blocking Donald Trump from future political offices?
Judge Mathew concluded that Griffin’s actions before, during and after the insurrection flew in the face of his oath to the U.S. Constitution, therefore disqualifying him from holding state office. “Nineteenth-century Americans would have regarded Mr. Griffin as being ‘leagued’ with the January 6 insurrectionists because he acted in concert with those insurrectionists and committed several overt acts supporting the insurrection,” the ruling reads.
Now do Mastriano next.