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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | Back issues
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Insurrectionist commissioner

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (CN) — A New Mexico federal judge declined to quiet a state-court lawsuit that seeks to remove Couy Griffin, a county commissioner who was sentenced to jail for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, from office. The court says he has not demonstrated a constitutional violation.

Read the ruling here.

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