The lawbreakers of Jan. 6 are being prosecuted for quite a lot of offenses. However ought to the courts additionally bar them from holding public workplace, like Confederates after the Civil Conflict?
That occurred Tuesday in New Mexico when a state decide disqualified Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin from holding public workplace. The 14th Modification bars from workplace anybody who as soon as took an oath to help the U.S. Structure after which “engaged in rebel or rebel in opposition to the identical.” Decide Francis Mathew, of New Mexico’s First Judicial District, says this language means Mr. Griffin should be eliminated and “barred for all times” from workplace.
