March 19, 2024, 1:04 PM MDT — By Steve Benen
The justices disagreed, which in turn left a related question: Does the 14th Amendment’s Section 3 still have enough teeth to block anyone from appearing on a ballot?
Apparently, yes. NBC News reported:
The legal argument that worked for President Donald Trump failed to deliver for one of his supporters Monday as the Supreme Court turned away a New Mexico man who was kicked out of local office over his role in the events of Jan. 6. Couy Griffin, a founder of Cowboys for Trump, was criminally convicted over his role in the Jan. 6 riot and lost his job as a county commissioner as a result.
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This character, Couy Griffin, is known as the founder of Cowboys for Trump. He is also known for this insult to Dems. (I could have done without knowing this fact.)
(Griffin’s name was already familiar in some circles: The Republican rose to national attention in May 2020 when he spoke at a New Mexico church and declared, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.” Trump then thought it’d be a good idea to promote a clip of the remarks via social media.)
Benen ends the column like this.
As for why the 14th Amendment applied to the New Mexico Republican and not Trump, my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin explained that the high court’s ruling blocked states from disqualifying would-be candidates for federal offices, but states are still able to disqualify would-be candidates for state offices.
Or as Jordan concluded, the Cowboys for Trump co-founder can’t run for the county commission in New Mexico, but thanks to the Supreme Court, he could run for president.
Thanks to the NM judge who barred him from running again and threw him out of office.
Good riddance.
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