The effort to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot using the 14th Amendment took a fatal blow when the Supreme Court ruled against Colorado’s decision to disqualify him. However, it appears that Democrats seeking to leverage the amendment’s “insurrection clause” against their political opposition can still use it against those running at the state level.
The Supreme Court declined to take up the case of Couy Griffin, former Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner and the founder of Cowboys for Trump. He was barred from holding public office again after he was convicted of trespassing on U.S. Capitol grounds.
The court’s decision regarding hearing Griffin’s case was made on Monday.
The justices on Monday denied Couy Griffin’s petition to consider his effort to overturn the rulings of courts in New Mexico that deemed him ineligible from holding office there…
