Federal Judge Removes Jan. 6 Protester From New Mexico County Commission, Bans Him From Public Office for Life

Shane Trejo |

Sep 6, 2022

Cuoy Griffin, co-founder of Cowboys for Trump, has been booted from his office as New Mexico county commissioner for protesting election fraud on Jan. 6, 2021.

State District Judge Francis Mathew removed Griffin from office in Otero County, N.M., and banned him from ever serving in public office again, claiming that he engaged “in insurrection or rebellion,” even though Griffin was never hit with any charges related to insurrection.

“Due to his disqualification under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, defendant is constitutionally ineligible and barred for life from serving as a ‘Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President,’ or from ‘hold[ing] any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State,’ including his current office as an Otero County Commissioner,” Mathew wrote.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington partnered with several New Mexico lawyers to remove Griffin from office against the will of the voters. Griffin was convicted of a misdemeanor for entering the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, even though he never went inside the building. He only served 14 days in jail.

Big League Politics has reported on the heinous civil liberties violations inflicted on Trump supporters over the Jan. 6 protest:

“A defense attorney for a Jan. 6 defendant has compared the treatment of his client to Soviet Russia and claimed he has “never seen such a blatant disregard for inmates’ rights.”

“The DC Jail is more reminiscent of Solzhenistyn’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ than it is of any remotely acceptable penal institution,” the attorney wrote in a filing.

“It is so utterly shameful and far reacher than Your Honor saw fit, for other reasons, to hold both the Director of the City’s Department of Corrections and the Warden of the DC Jail in contempt of court,” they added.

The defense attorney noted that the DC Jail has made it incredibly difficult for him to perform his duties as these Soviet-style show trials are initiated by the regime.

“I have practiced criminal defense as an attorney throughout this entire country and have never seen such a blatant disregard for inmates’ rights as I have seen from this DC Jail. The countless hours I fought through DC Jail bureaucracy simply to be told how I could forward Discovery to my client was nothing more than a veiled attempt to thwart and discourage inmates from receiving the proofs in their own cases,” the attorney wrote.

“When I finally learned of the DC Jail’s requirements and fully complied, the flash drive of Discovery I provided was returned to me without so much as a single note or letter as to why it was not given to my client. To this day, I cannot obtain an answer as to why that Discovery was returned to me in such a derelict fashion,” they continued.

“There is a well-documented history of the DC Jail hindering attorney/client visits as well as refusing the Capitol Riot inmates the same privileges as other inmates to email their attorneys and families. The entire world but for the DC Jail has found Zoom and other electronic applications to provide video visits in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the attorney added.”

This judge’s ruling sets a disgusting precedent. This is total war against the people of America from a corrupt government that is rotten to its core.

Federal Judge Removes Jan. 6 Protester From New Mexico County Commission, Bans Him From Public Office for Life

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