A county official in New Mexico who was convicted of entering a restricted area during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol must be immediately removed from office for his involvement in an insurrection, a judge decided yesterday.
“He took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States … [and then] engaged in that insurrection after taking his oath,” Judge Mathew wrote.
“I don’t think it’s fair to accuse me of insurrection,” he says. “I didn’t have any intent of being a part of an insurrection or a violent mob. My intent of going to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 was because I had concerns that our elections had been compromised.” “We have been fortunate as a country to not have many episodes of insurrection — and certainly not insurrections in which elected officials have played a part,” Bookbinder says. “But now we had this thing happen where people in the U.S. engaged in an armed insurrection to stop the legally mandated counting of votes and the peaceful transfer of power. It really looked a whole lot like what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment had in mind.
Griffin says he was not violent while at the Capitol that day and wasn’t aware that he was trespassing at the time. A criminal court convicted Griffin of misdemeanor trespassing on Jan. 6, which he plans to appeal.
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