Former Otero County, New Mexico, Commissioner Couy Griffin was disqualified under the 14th Amendment's Section 3 in 2022 -- and that argument is being used against Trump
-- ABC News recently spoke with the one politician who has been removed from office under that same argument.
"I don't care if you're talking about a conservative or a liberal -- you shouldn't be able to use a court to remove an elected official," he said from New Mexico. "That was their [CREW's] plan. They started with me. It's never been about Couy Griffin, it's been about Trump." In this May 1, 2020, file photo, Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin waves an American flag while riding a horse up Sixth Avenue during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York.Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who has vocally pushed back on Trump's baseless claims of election fraud, has also been skeptical of the disqualification argument.
Bookbinder told reporters on Wednesday that "this is obviously a case of tremendous, tremendous importance."Griffin, founder of Cowboys for Trump, told ABC News that despite losing his job due to Jan. 6, he still has no regrets about participating in the events of the day because he says his actions were peaceful.
The ruling describes Griffin's behavior that day as he spent more than an hour on the inauguration platform speaking into a bullhorn at times and includes testimony from a witness to Griffin's behavior who described him as "very encouraging" to the mob congregated at the Capitol.
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