The Attorney General for New Mexico has informed Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham his office will not be appearing in court to defend her against the unconstitutional gun ban she has decreed by fiat in Alburquerque.
New Mexico – Democratic New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez announced he will not defend the state in pending lawsuits against the governor’s public health emergency order suspending open and concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque and surrounding counties.
In a letter to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) regarding four impending lawsuit cases, Torrez shared the same sentiments from Democratic and Republican lawmakers and law enforcement, saying the ban violates the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.
“Though I recognize my statutory obligation as New Mexico’s chief legal officer to defend state officials when they are sued in their official capacity, my duty to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of every citizen takes precedence,” Torrez wrote. “Simply put, I do not believe that the Emergency Order will have any meaningful impact on public safety but, more importantly, I do not believe it passes constitutional muster.” (more)
Using a “public health emergency” as a method to ban firearms is purely an ideological effort from the school of Soros.
Nice try but she’ll face no consequence
Just try again another way
This is an everyday occurrence in Chicago. And handguns are banned. How’s that?
The general public doesn’t know about the daily shootings because the media is complicit in the Democratic narrative. They choose to instead talk about criminal Trump or climate change. You know, really bad things.
So now we know there’s at least one State Attorney General that isn’t owned by Adolph Soros.
Or, they floated this obvious ridiculous, illegal and unconstitutional, position to undermine the 2nd Amendment and saw it wasn’t going well, so have other operators leave her hanging (if only).
They aren’t done. They are probing the perimeter. She actually made that point in her statements.
“They aren’t done. They are probing the perimeter.”
Yup! If they don’t find a breach they’ll create one.
False flag event
Do not underestimate how devious and deceitful our government is. They are really good at perpetrating False Flag Operations. Lotsa’ practice.
Fast/furious, which was actually an attempt to create a crises in Mexico, in order to enable the POTUS to circumvent 2A, due to his unique plenary authority in regards to National Security and interactions with other Countries govts,…failed.
Ginning up lots of mass shooting events, in order to build demand for gun confiscation hasn’t worked, either.
Using Public health emergency, also won’t work.
And, they can only get SO far, in their “chipping away” before they run into the roadblock of the 2A.
This has ALWAYS been a major challenge for THEM, and the only route that could possibly succeed, is instituting universal, biometric I.D.’S, as a preliminary step to CBDC’s, which they HOPE will finally give them the mechanism to disarm America.
I am sceptical; they have been TALKING about CBDC’s, for YEARS.
And yet, so far as I know, not one country, even as a “beta test” has actually implemented them,…WHY?
I think its because after Covid, the 2020 steal, etc. they are aware the sheep simply will no longer willingly be herded into the slaughterhouse.
I just don’t think they will be able to disarm America, by ANY means.
Trial balloon for the WHO.
We could call the governor’s action the political equivalent of reconnaissance by fire. She got lit up the split second she crossed the line of departure.
The governor is now politically isolated and weakened. If she withdraws her order, she looks weak. If she leaves it in place, she looks weak. Posturing and demagoguery is all she has left.
The governor did not think her actions through let alone consider the possibility of failure and what that might mean for her position. If she did not blunder, then the word has no meaning.
The opposition is awake, energized, and politically unified – third monkey on Noah’s ramp indeed. My hope is that the Democrats continue to probe the 2A perimeter all the way to election day.
You would think she would have consulted with her AG BEFORE making this edict.
Politics over governance. That’s her problem.
Good comparison. Reconnassiance by fire works better in dove hunting than politics.
Indeed,… Face, meet Egg, Grisham.
And, I think he’s a dem.
What was your 1st clue?
He is.
Maybe a follow up letter to the Governor from the Sherrif to remind her that she took the same oath to first uphold the Constitution.
And that it is the Sherrif’s obligation to enforce that oath on every elected public servant in the state such as her.
Didn’t the Governor just commit perjury? She took a public oath to uphold the Constitution and now publicly she has stated to not uphold the Constitution. She should be immediately removed from office by the Sherrif.
He will run for Governor after this blunder by the Karen in Charge.
Au contraire, they’re both democrats, he empathizes with her, he just can’t see a way to support her, give him some time to consult with Soros the Younger.
Or, since her order was for thirty days, in his refusing to represent her she can now say I need more time to get an attorney. The thirty days come and go and the court dismisses it because the order expired.
In the meantime she can double down as their won’t be any legal consequences for her and he won’t have defending this case used against him when he runs for higher office.
They both get out of this mess and it never sees a courtroom because he refuses to defend her.
Funny thing about DemocRATS, they always think that criminals will follow the law and it’s always the guns fault.
MAGA!
Actually, I think some (many) of them know full well that criminals don’t follow the law and they also know that firearms do not shoot themselves.
No, they are so stuck in the unproven beliefs/ideas/false religion that they simply ignore whatever isn’t convenient.
This makes them “worse” than they appear, IMO.
“it’s always the guns fault.”
I approve this message – Alec Baldwin
The world has gone ‘Court Crazy’………..
The blindfold has been removed from Lady Justice AND now the courts have gone mad with ‘trials of the century’……every squabble has become a decision for the ‘COURTS’.
AND the courts are at it’s most vulnerable point in history, real history will be written on feelings not the laws of the land……..without her blindfold the heinous cases will be left to who has the best ‘reason’ to commit crimes; does that make for a justice situation or D.I.E.
God Help US
Political courts, like political medicine are doses too hard to swallow IMHO. AND can lead to a very ill world indeed. We have to take the government out of private lives to survive. BIG government involved from cradle to grave is not the cure; it’s the Cause.
Yep. We perpetuate the corrupted system by participating in it. Noncompliance is needed. Targeted economic sanctions against the Wall St. economy are also needed.
The ONLY way the courts can be saved is when they recognize that their power only exists in a world where laws are equally and fairly applied. Once the Law becomes just another weapon for Democrats to attack citizens, there’s no more reason for anyone to participate. No more jury duty. Ignoring summons and subpoenas, just letting the system implode.
Right now we are all criminals waiting for the FBI to show up and accuse us of a crime that we never heard of as an excuse to threaten and destroy us.
In a world where everyone is a criminal, the law has no meaning.
And they will. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but one day you’re gonna be under the microscope, and when you are, you better have a lot of friends in high places. If you don’t, they will take it all from you and mock you the whole time.
Let em TRY.
Grisham is just another insane, lying Soros like phony. Referencing to non-existent statistics. Makes you angry to listen to that kind of nonsense.
Nonexistent or fabricated/distorted.
She should be immediately removed from office by the Sherrif for acting against the Constitution which she swore an oath to uphold.
It is my belief that this dictator is floating a test balloon to see how far our corrupt government can go in removing our rights through dictator fiats. It gladdens me that other officers are standing up and the people of ABQ are as well. This woman’s family have been stepping on NM for many years.
That AG gets it: “… unilateral action that infringes on … constitutional rights WHILE HAVING LITTLE IF ANY DISCERNIBLE IMPACT ON THE UNDERLYING DYNAMICS DRIVING GUN VIOLENCE.”
Exactly, precisely correct. You can pish on all the brush fires you want to but, until you remove the combustible underbrush, the forest remains at risk.
The thing is, even if her rediculous mandate WOULD have obvious, measurable effect on “reducing gun violence” it WOULD NOT MATTER, as its STILL Un-Constitutional.
The 2A doesn’t say ANYTHING (nor does the Constitution) about RESULTS.
What part of “unalienable” do people not understand?
Wow, thanks. Snitch on your ‘friends’. This is communism.
Gun up!!!
Trust me, that is exactly what they will roll out next. The Snitch #. Just like they did for J6 and COVIDCON.
Then they will put your faces on a wanted poster, like they did with J6.
Harp on this occasionally, but Eric Holder doesn’t look
like a black American guy.
I think he looks more like someone from Egypt or the northern
African countries.
Anybody else get this vibe?
I work with a LOT of black individuals, the majority of whom are
from places other then the U.S.
He resembles the overseas crowd more.
The fact that he HATES the U.S. makes more sense when his
lineage has no allegiances to it. Like the Kenyan.
I’m glad she did this. it forces every Dem official in the state to declare their position. The ones of the hot seat are the Dems in the state legislature-NM was one of the worst lockdown states. Citizens and the GOP legislators begged the legislature many times to curtail her emergency powers—they refused. It’s hilarious. The largest tourist event in the state, the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta begins in early October under her 2nd amendment suspension-great look for the city.
ROFL!!! Oh my goodness, that was a train wreck!
In her rant she trashed the police for not doing anything. Several times!
Used the word “bold” about 17 times which even stupid people will realize she rehearsed.
Admitted nobody is enforcing her diktat.
Somehow managed to weave in PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, hahahaha!
And then she admits she needs to “take a breath” before claiming that “It’s not a ban. It’s a temporary pause.”
Did you know Lujan maintained the COVID State of Emergency for the final time in March 2023?
That’s right. Mrs Temporary Pause kept the plandemic running for THREE YEARS. Even the most hard core Lefties gave up on COVID by early 2022 when the vaccine mandate was killed.
Did you know the SoS of NM, a Proud DIM political activist, was the tip of the spear for the massive election fraud in 2020?
The early shutdowns on “vote” counting. The “Trusted Sources” blue box gubt censorship, all gubt media censorship and cancellation programs, and so much more.
She was the then President of the NASS, National Association of Secraries of State. The one where they bow down to and suck up to the black box machine makers. The one where they hatch and share all their evil plots and pinkie swear to stand behind each other no matter what in al of their evil plots and destruction.
Maggie Toulouse Oliver. Formerly the county clerk for Bernalillo County.
Wagons effectively circled. Grisham jumped the shark on testing the new WHO power here in the US.
Wow. We have a front row seat to The Fourth Turning. Engage!!!
Would it be appropriate for us to send the governor a penny for her legal defense fund that she is going to be needing?
New Mexico, right?
Surprised they didn’t hang her this morning.
Absolutely.
I once mailed a nickel to the Clinton Legal Defense Fund. (It cost 33 cents for the stamp.)
Didn’t even get an acknowledgement. 🙁
Does the state constitution not require the AG to defend the state in lawsuits? Two wrongs don’t make a right. This is remeniscent of the 0bama administration refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
Defend as required by the state constitution what is clearly a violation of the US Constitution?
Hmmm…
More slo-mo, see-sawy kayfabe theatah. This should be good for another six months of judicious weighing-in.
We’re seeing the stratagem behind inculcating a fearsome media habit in the American psyche. Watch this, no watch that. Whatever you do, whatever side of the see-saw you prefer, KEEP WATCHING.
Except, while the Right have forged a political ‘movement’ out of watching, the Left vanguard executes–strategies today, enemies tomorrow. Yes, the Left have their army of lotus-eaters too. But the Right has no one except Trump. And one way or another, they plan to de-commission POTUS, Gd help us and Gd bless Trump.
The dogs bark, but the Deep State caravan moves on. Don’t get up from the sofa, I have another media construct for you. When you see this one, you’ll wanna stay seated and watch the next one tomorrow.
And so it goes…until the Kill Switch shuts down the show and we ‘burn in the camps’ without broadband.
No one can say that Americans haven’t been showered in an abundance of media cautionary tales. Russia had no prior analog for the Bolshevik demonocracy that ended up killing tens of millions of them.
We’ll only have ourselves to blame.
The devil’s a liar and this Grisham is his daughter. Get ye behind me!
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/04/17/Albuquerque-votes-to-reaffirm-sanctuary-city-status/5061523980857/
Could this little detail have anything to do with gun violence, drugs, etc. in New Mexico? Typical vicious cycle, liberals cause the problem and the rest of us get to pay for the solution.
If Grisham’s administration does not have access to “free” (NM taxpayer-paid) NM DOJ legal representation, her administration’s legal bills in the 6 or so lawsuits already filed against her unconstitutional decree will get very expen$ive in a hurry.
Do what they did to Palin.
Load her up with lawsuits, to the point that she HAS to quit.
Our side’s turn. Dems shouldn’t have the market cornered on how to be assholes.
“BOLD” does NOT equate to being “CORRECT”. As a simpleton, the governor equates fewer guns in the hands of law abiding citizens, as meaning safer streets. This is a dangerous world, and she is trying to make it an even MORE dangerous world, since she is now in the face of law abiding citizens, who ALL have the ABSOLUTE right to defend themselves with a gun. No “authority” should have the right to deny their right.
The good governor has said the NM State Police will enforce her unconstitutional edit even if sheriff departments, the Albuquerque PD, and the NM DA say they will not.
Have we heard from the head of the NM State Police yet? Just askin’ for a friend.
My Prayer this morning
Psalm 35:22-28 NKJV
[22] This You have seen, O LORD; Do not keep silence.
O Lord, do not be far from me.
[23] Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication,
To my cause, my God and my Lord.
[24] Vindicate me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over me.
[25] Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
[26] Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who rejoice at my hurt; Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor Who exalt themselves against me.
[27] Let them shout for joy and be glad,
Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually,
“Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”
[28] And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness And of Your praise all the day long.
Amen
The Lord is fighting this battle for us. The tide is turning and these evil ones are trying harder and harder and ever time they try, they make more confusion for themselves.
All this pushback by Dems against the governor is fascinating. I think they’re terrified of the fact that she spilled the beans on their secret plans to disarm us. She couldn’t resist the power grab—was just itching to give it a go and figured the 2024 election was a shoe-in, so why not come out with the left’s true intentions early? Loud and proud, eh?
You can tell from her expressions she’s surprised by the vocal dem resistance, as if any if these virtue signaling bastards give a damn about the Constitution. They’re just doing damage control. So I consider her bold move a great gift: there should be zero doubt left in anyone’s mind that the left hates this country and all who defend it. Furthermore, they want us dead at the hands of the evil animals now in control of the streets in blue cities.
Like all Attorneys General, this one has future politcal aspirations. No need to fall on his sword over this.
I feel safe going to the grocery store when I conceal carry because I can’t carry a sheriff with me everywhere I go! She’s a complete loon and of course she has LE protection everywhere she goes. She’s just disarming law abiding citizens not the criminals they don’t give a 💩 about her order and she knows it which makes it even more absurd!!! How the hell did she get elected???
So the slothful continue to get their checks.
Update on NM 2A battle
In addition to the democrat AG stating he cannot defend gun order, it is causing strife in the democrat leadership
6 federal law suits have been filed against the governor order
Bernalillo County sheriff and Albuquerque sheriff have stated they will not enforce the order
Last Sunday over 100 protesters downtown, most carrying side arms or rifles. None were arrested.
ACLU actually on same side as Republicans and against PHO.
Local newspaper which normally caters to democrats is giving a favorable view towards those against this.
Didn’t the Governor just commit perjury? She took a public oath to uphold the Constitution and now publicly she has stated to not uphold the Constitution. She should be immediately removed from office by the Sherrif.
Even if Grisham was to withdraw this order, the legislature should immediately go through with impeachment and remove her from office.
If one of these cooks was to spin to a stop on the sidewalk outside the capital and realize, “Wow, what happened? that was fast. Am I no longer in office?”
It might be a message to other Soros Governors and office holders that they try the “trial balloons” they may find themselves crashing to the ground as the air runs out.
I hate to say this, but she is not the only one violating her oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution.
Look around! Both parties.
What’s with these totalitarian women?
There seem to be quite a few who cannot resist the urge to grab as much power as they can.
This one looks like so many others.
So much power within reach.
She can barely control herself.
Yesterday I received my renewed Concealed Weapons Permit. Second 5-year renewal.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
The DEMONRAT COMMUNIST PARTY is assaulting America and Americans at every level try to break the spirit of the American people who love our nation. WE THE PEOPLE must find GOD and stand strong against this attempted takeover of our nation. Continue to find those in your communities that will stand together to oppose these assaults. Hopefully we can form together as the colonies did in the revolution and defeat this evil attacking our nation. Our GOD will be our guide.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that
protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
As ratified by the States:
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security
of a free state, the right of the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed.”
We are witnessing the attempted communist democrat OVERTHROW of our ELECTIONS, Constitution, civil rights, separation of powers, client-attorney privilege, executive immunity, executive privilege, our judicial system by ROGUE judges, DAs and politicians, our law enforcement agencies, educational system and every other institution, etc.
The coup is ongoing….and picking up steam.
Criminals know ‘Gun Free Zones’ are easy targets.
There has to be some legal consequences for these rogue Presidents and Governors who make these proclamations while saying, “Yep its unconstitutional but I’m doing it anywray”
Smart, if they enforced her unconstitutional edict they’ve be legally liable for damages when the lawsuits start flying-same for LEOs.
So did they refuse out of honouring the Constitution, or of fear of judicial reprisals?
She needs to be arrested for violating her constitutional oath of office. After her arrest & charges being filed, before her trial, she needs to be officially removed from office.
So, the Governor of NM was used to float this trial balloon with the SAFETY LINE of the NM AG’s letter tethering her in case the back lash was too bad.
It’s a version of the old bar fight gag … a person tells a friend … “Hold me back in case the guy I am attacking decides to kick my ass”.
All parties are due in court today at 1:00 MT.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/09/13/emperor-michelle-i-a-lawyer-a-lawyer-my-kingdom-for-a-lawyer-n577626
It’s not that it’s unconstitutional, it’s also that it’s illegal. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/5207
She flat-out lied about background checks. Every time I have purchased a firearm I had to go through a background check. Buy a gun one week then another one a week later you still have to fill out the paperwork for the background check and wait again. That I know because it happened to me. Bought a pistol then a week later saw a shotgun that was begging for me to buy it. Same thing all over again one week later.
In Az, you are not required to have a CC “permit” to carry concealed.
Open carry, concealed carry, if you are legal to own a gun, you can carry it any way you want.
But, IF you pass the class, and get a CC “permit” you don’t have to go thru a background check every time,..you just show your permit.
Same in Texas. I chose to take the course and get my LTC even though not required. I’ve hunted since I was 7. But I still learned a lot. Ex., if some perp breaks into my truck and steals my wallet & my laptop with everything on it including bank account passwords, grandchildren’s pictures, etc.. I know even though legal to shoot, I won’t. But if he breaks in my house with my family inside; he’s a goner.
https://jeffgoldstein.substack.com/p/point-me-in-the-direction-of-albuquerque?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1ha8x0&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Jeff Goldstein @ his substack “Protein Wisdom” coined a phrase that fits the stupid rhetoric of this crooked New Mexico governor to a tee: “semantic emergency.” Semantic Emergency. That’s exactly what the Communist Left in America and around the world has been doing to us since 1917–creating a lot of nothingburger crisis by telling nothing but lies.
It’s no big deal. It’s another lying Communist Semantic Emergency. Tell your friends. Throw it in the face of the lying Communist Left. They got nothing and they know it; otherwise they wouldn’t lie like they do.
An Attorney General who actually takes his oath to defend the CONSTITUTION rather than blindly following his boss…imagine THAT!
He has his own agenda, and it isn’t one we would welcome.
For example, according to the NM AG website, Raul Torrez provided “strategic counsel as a senior advisor in President Obama’s Department of Justice.”
https://www.nmag.gov/meet-the-ag/
Just another Soros supported socialist idiot destroying our nation.
How many illegals committing crimes and other criminals were in position of a legal registered firearm when arrested . Most likely a big fat ZERO!
So who is this twat disarming and why ?
Must be her desire to kill more free independent American citizens
Everyone should pay attention to this quote by Sundance: “Using a “public health emergency” as a method to ban firearms is purely an ideological effort from the school of Soros.”
This is absolutely correct. Soros being a foreigner doesn’t know nor cares about our Constitutional Republic. He associates our country with Europe where these efforts are successful because they lack the one document that prevents their historical tyrannical systems of governance.
She’s a dipshit. ALL leftists mayors and governors are dipshits
Pretty much all mayors and Governors are leftists, so yes they are all dipshits.
Dizzy Ducey (RINO) was no better than horrific Hobbs, not really.
This was a misstep by the Democrat Governor and a solid win for the people. Not only did even her fellow nut job Democrat officials and police pump the brakes and leave her by herself, the public of New Mexico *completely* ignored the “Order”, unlike during Covid.
Yes, the radical Dems will come up with some other nonsense, but this was a win.
i was a victim Covid overreach as a tourist. It will be a cold day in hell before I vacation in NM again.
So does this mean that Governor Grisham pays for her defense out of her own pocket, or are taxpayers on the hook for her unconstitutional actions?
This woman’s political trajectory has crested and she’s on the way back to earth.
She has virtually no one in her corner and the courts will summarily slap her down.
It would be fairly safe from a political standpoint for the NM GA to impeach and remove her.
From the Dems’ standpoint, she is a complete liability going forward.
Judge temporarily blocks New Mexico governor’s order suspending right to carry firearms in public
https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-mexico-governor-reacts-backlash-gun-order/story?id=103154988
More details are available at a Denver Post report, which points out that U.S. District Judge David Urias
1. Agreed “with plaintiffs in several lawsuits who said the order violates constitutional rights and he granted a temporary restraining order to block the governor’s suspension of gun rights. It’s in place until an Oct. 3 court hearing”; and
2. “The rest of the public health order, including directives for monthly inspections of firearms dealers statewide, reports on gunshot victims at New Mexico hospitals and wastewater testing for illicit substances, remains intact.”
https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/13/federal-judge-blocks-suspension-of-right-to-carry-firearms-in-public-ordered-by-new-mexico-governor-2/