On March 18, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Griffin v New Mexico, 23-279. Coey Griffin had been removed from his elected position as an Otero County, New Mexico commissioner, by a New Mexico state trial court, in 2022. The New Mexico trial court took this action because Griffin had been arreswted for trespassing at the national Capitol on January 6, 2021.
He was barred from holding any future governmental position for life. He had asked the New Mexico Supreme Court to hear his appeal, but it had declined to do so. He then filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, which asked the other side to respond. The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear the case at a conference in February, but took no action. It considered it again this month, and has now rejected it.
29 FEB 2024
28 USC 3231. The district courts of the United States shall have original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of all offenses against the laws of the United States.
Nothing in this title shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several States under the laws thereof.
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18 USC 2383. Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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14-3 Amdt. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
ONLY 28 USC 3231 USA DIST COURT JURISDICTION OF 18 USC 2383 I/R CRIMINAL CASES.
IF CRIMINAL CONVICTION, THEN 14-3 AMDT ADDED PENALTY FOR SPECIFIED PERSONS.
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