For the first time, a judge ruled that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was an insurrection in order to remove a participant in the attack from elected office in New Mexico.
a public official from office since 1869 under the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington , which aided in the case against Griffin.
In the decision, Mathew wrote that Griffin’s arguments “to sanitize his actions” are meritless and without evidence, calling them “nothing more than attempting to put lipstick on a pig.”
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