Posted on 01/19/2024 2:50:18 PM PST by CedarDave
Three New Mexico residents filed a civil lawsuit against Griffin, arguing that he violated the 14th Amendment when he entered the Capitol grounds that day.
Griffin represented himself in a civil bench trial before 1st Judicial District Judge Francis Mathew, who found that Griffin had engaged in an insurrection and ordered his removal as an Otero County commissioner.
“It’s a disgrace that a bench trial before a liberal Democrat judge can remove a duly elected official,” Griffin said Thursday in a phone interview. “It’s just fraud and corruption in its purest form.”
The argument that the SCOTUS should dismiss the case because he was disqualified under New Mexico law should be disregarded because the judge applying the NM law used the Jan 6 "insurrection" conviction as the reason for removing him. However, without reviewing the legal filings, it may be that he was also removed for the conviction of the misdemeanor of trespassing at the Capital.
Pelosi had directed that temporary fencing be erected around the Capital grounds, including the grassy areas, to prevent access to the steps and the building itself. This was breached by the protestors.
the supreme court will have no option but to throw ALL of these out!
Otherwise, 100’s of people are going to be thrown off the ballot on both sides from now until eternity.
What would that have accomplished?
Nothing.
"Threat To Democracy", my shiney White a$$.
Not to mention a violation of basic due process and civil rights.
. just wow! Is this referring to the fencing that was similar to bicycle racks? fencing that was removed by whom? MAGA? Feds? before many people even got to the Capitol.
Dems are so evil. They are happy to ruin a person's life for being on the grass hundreds of yards from the Capitol building itself.
They were bike rakes.
Epps whispers into Sansells ear and seconds later he attacks the few capital police that are there using the bike rakes to push them out of the way
Did Sansells get arrested / convicted/ jailed? Sansells is not a name I am familiar with.
CREW ping
“...A brief filed Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny Griffin’s petition, arguing that he was ousted under a New Mexico law that allows the removal of public officials who commit acts that disqualify them from office.
The state law was the mechanism used by a group of New Mexico residents to remove Griffin from office, said Nikhel Sus, an attorney for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C., who co-authored the brief. ...”
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