New Mexico, Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin looks on as Marine One, carrying President Donald J. Trump, prepares to lift-off Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, from the South Lawn of the White House. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse45/48726982006)
A judge today removed a county official from office under Section 3 of the 14th amendment, the hoary post-Civil War provision that bars certain people from holding office if they have “engaged in insurrection” against the United States.
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