SCOTUS rejects 'Cowboys for Trump' founder appeal to stay in office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Former Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Griffin is a cowboy pastor who rode to national political fame by embracing then-President Donald Trump 'We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,' the justices wrote in an unsigned opinion.
47% : Though the Supreme Court ruled this month that states don´t have the ability to bar Trump or other candidates for federal offices from the ballot, the justices said different rules apply to state and local candidates.
43% : In 2019, Griffin forged a group of rodeo acquaintances into the promotional group called Cowboys for Trump, which staged horseback parades to support Trump´s conservative message about gun rights, immigration controls and abortion restrictions.
38% : At trial, Mathew, the judge, called Griffin's free-speech arguments self-serving and not credible, noting that the then-commissioner spread lies about the 2020 election being stolen from Trump in a series of speeches at rallies during a cross-country journey starting in New Mexico, calling on crowds to go with him to Washington on Jan. 6 and join the 'war' over the presidential election results.
35% : On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack this year, Griffin cast himself as the victim of political persecution as he spoke to a gathering in the rural community of Gillette, Wyoming, at the invitation of a county Republican Party.
34% : The accusations of insurrection against Griffin were filed on behalf of three New Mexico residents by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning group that also brought the lawsuit in Colorado to disqualify Trump.
31% : Griffin is the only elected official thus far to be banned from office in connection with the Capitol attack, which disrupted Congress as it was trying to certify Joe Biden´s 2020 electoral victory over Trump.
28% : After his disqualification from office, Griffin was tried and acquitted by a jury in his home county in March 2023 of allegations that he declined to register and disclose donors to Cowboys for Trump.
17% : Congress had gathered in the Capitol Building to count Electoral College votes when droves of Trump supporters rioted, broke into the building, injured police officers, called for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence and stalled the proceedings for hours Ex-president Donald Trump attracted criticism recently for referring to January 6 rioters as 'hostages' CREW has outlined the case for investigating several current state legislators who went to Washington on Jan. 6.

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