{"id":1650724,"date":"2022-09-21T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1650724"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:50:08","slug":"cowboys-for-trump-co-founder-cuoy-griffin-appeals-public-office-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cowboys-for-trump-co-founder-cuoy-griffin-appeals-public-office-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys for Trump Co-Founder Cuoy Griffin Appeals Public Office Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcowboys-for-trump-co-founder-cuoy-griffin-appeals-public-office-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1650724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cowboys-for-trump\">Cowboys for Trump<\/a> cofounder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-couy-griffin\">Couy Griffin<\/a> on Tuesday appealed a decision made by a judge in New Mexico that banned him from\u00a0seeking or holding state or federal office and removed the official from his position.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin, who was removed from his position as an Otero County commissioner, notified the state Supreme Court on Tuesday of\u00a0his intent to appeal the ruling by state District Judge Francis Mathew in early September.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin, 48, was convicted for being on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol when it was breached on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22275507-court-ruling-against-griffin\">ruling<\/a> earlier this month, Mathew\u00a0found\u00a0that Griffin took an oath to support the U.S. Constitution when assuming the position and concluded that\u00a0the Capitol breach was \u201can insurrection by a mob\u00a0whose goal \u2026\u00a0was to set aside the results of a free, fair and lawful election by a majority of the people of the entire country,\u201d and\u00a0that Griffin \u201cis disqualified from federal and state office for having engaged in that insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling marked the first time an\u00a0elected official has been removed or barred from office in connection with the U.S. Capitol breach and came after three New Mexico residents, represented by the Washington-based nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), asked the court to\u00a0bar Griffin from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>They cited\u00a0Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-bars-official-who-took-part-in-jan-6-from-seeking-or-holding-office_4713631.html\">states<\/a> that\u00a0anyone who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution can be barred from office for \u201cengaging in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge wrote that \u201cMr. Griffin aided the insurrection even though he did not personally engage in violence. By joining the mob and trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds, Mr. Griffin contributed to delaying Congress\u2019s election-certification proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Ban \u2018Disenfranchises Political Constituents\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Griffin maintained his innocence throughout the trial and sentencing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys for Trump cofounder Couy Griffin on Tuesday appealed a decision made by a judge in New Mexico that banned him from\u00a0seeking or holding state or federal office and removed the official from his position. Griffin, who was removed from his position as an Otero County commissioner, notified the state Supreme Court on Tuesday of\u00a0his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}