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Left: The justices of the United States Supreme Court (Alex Wong/Getty images). Right: Couy Griffin at the Capitol on Jan. 6 (via DOJ court filing).

The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of the “Cowboys for Trump” founder — and convicted Jan. 6 rioter — on Monday, thereby following through on its declaration that while states may not disqualify insurrectionists from holding presidential office, they can certainly unseat state officials.

“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the justices wrote in an unsigned opinion on March 4 about the ultimately unsuccessful effort to get Donald Trump kicked off the presidential primary ballot in Colorado (emphasis in original).

The Court’s decision Monday means that a ruling by the top court in New Mexico will stand against the only U.S. elected official that has been barred from holding office because of his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Former Otero County, New Mexico, commissioner Couy Griffin, who founded “Cowboys for Trump,” was convicted in March 2022 of entering a restricted area — a misdemeanor — for participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Griffin was acquitted of a second misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct after a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Donald Trump appointee.

Griffin was recorded standing with a megaphone over the crowd outside the Capitol and boasted on social media that he “climbed up on the top of the Capitol building” and “had a first row seat” to the violence. According to the criminal complaint filed against him, Griffin promised, “we will plant our flag on the desk of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Donald J. Trump if it boils down to it.”

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