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How to Deal with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, has suspended the Second Amendment by banning concealed and open carry in New Mexico through executive order due to a “Health Emergency.” She justified her action: “No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute. There are restrictions on free speech. There are restrictions on my freedoms.”
Therein lies the solution to this type of overreach.
Some governmental body in New Mexico needs to enact a law convicting Lujan Grisham of “crimes against the Constitution” and sentencing her to jail within the community. No trial because no constitutional right is intended to be absolute. Since she presents a clear and present danger to rule of law, that justifies ignoring Constitutional provisions in other articles in the Bill of Rights. Further state that if she enters their jurisdiction, they will arrest and jail her.
If it is pointed out this violates all sorts of provisions of the US and New Mexico Constitutions, they should then state that they are just following the Lujan Grisham principal: “No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute. There are restrictions on free speech. There are restrictions on my freedoms.”
They are just restricting her freedom in the same manner as she has restricted the freedoms of the citizens of New Mexico. Of course, if she admits that no one, including herself, can arbitrarily limit the freedom of others by ignoring the Constitution (and withdraws the Emergency Order), they will admit they have gone beyond their authority in ordering her arrest, and void their new law. Otherwise? Game on, governor. We are going to play by your rules.
No one will actually do this; more’s the pity. Because if some group did, it would stop this kind of horse pucky. Arbitrary rule is all fun and games as long as you are the one being arbitrary and it doesn’t come back to bite you.
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Yeah, but this way the hamlet of Bad Water New Mexico can put her in the slammer. Laws? The governor herself said we don’t need no steenkin’ laws if the emergency is great enough. If she can violate the law in such a cavalier manner every governmental organization in New Mexico can – according to her own words.
It’s a great way to mock her pretentions by putting some steel in the mockery.
Republicans will save us! ( :: laughs ruefully :: )
They won’t. But all it takes is one small town city council willing to do this. I can think of several in Texas that would do it for grins.
Too bad Stefani Lord of the unspecified degree doesn’t know the diference between populous and populace.
WTAF?
“No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute. There are restrictions on free speech. There are restrictions on my freedoms.”
There are two terrible non sequiturs on here.
This jumbled-up thinking is how we get here. And this is a bad place.
What’s the phrase- impeach, remove, bar from office?
Sic semper tyrannis!
Michigan has a similar governor.
Deranged Lunatic Jonah Goldberg’s take:
Gee Jonah, isn’t that “whataboutism”?
And which clause exactly was it that Trump defied?
Article 19913, the “Jonah Knows Best” clause.
[shrieking] All of them!!1!!1
Suggested edit: reword this phrase, the part about a law convicting.
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During peak Covid Gov. Grisham of New Mexico was desperately competing with Gov. Whitmer of Michigan to be the most tyrannical female governor in the United States. [Neither had any hope of competing for overall most tyrannical governor as long as Gov. Newsom of California and Gov. Cuomo of New York had grips on two of the country’s largest states.] But Gov. Grisham could never get the “credit” she sought. Michigan has a significantly larger population and a larger economy, Michigan is geographically closer to the NY-DC myopic media, and Gov. Whitmer had better public relations connections in the national Democratic party. So we all remember Gov. Whitmer as the tyrant, and forget that Gov. Grisham imposed significant restrictions on basic civil liberties.
I wonder if Gov. Grisham doesn’t still hold some resentment that she did not get enough credit for being a “tough governor” during Covid.
So it looks like with the gun issue Gov. Grisham has found an issue on which to hoist her tyrant bona fides.
We have a criminal statute, 18 USC 242 (Deprivation of Civil Rights under Color of Law) , but no federal prosecutor ever uses it as far as I can tell. Under the current criminal enterprise known as the Department of Justice, it would only be used against Republicans anyway.
I think Seawriter is actually suggesting an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder against the person who is herself acting unconstitutionally. Not a good idea, but I can sympathize with the emotion.
Oh, my lord. For Jonah, everything is ultimately about Trump, and those Trump voters he hates.
Someone who loves him needs to stage an intervention. Does anyone love him?
Article II, Section 6 of the New Mexico Constitution:
Sec. 6. [Right to bear arms.]
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms. (As amended November 2, 1971 and November 2, 1986.)
As for concealed weapons, Article II, Section 1, recognizes the United States Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
You not liking him doesn’t make his point wrong. Maybe that’s what you don’t like?
This is outrageous…..seems like the calls for impeachment and hopefully removal are the appropriate response right? This is a political maneuver and a seemingly obvious dereliction of her duties as governor. Seems pretty plain that her use of an emergency executive order was inspired by the precedent of totalitarian tendencies of state governments during covid lockdowns ect…
I would be surprised if the US District Court Judge waited until Tuesday to issue a restraining order (2 lawsuits filed over the weekend).
That it is a Bill of Attainter is the point. It is to demonstrate you cannot take the Constitution a la carte. If you can legally ignore one part someone else can ignore what they want to ignore.
Right on time. Sad!
Those were the 2022 numbers. Impeachment is beyond unlikely.
But it also does not necessarily make him right.