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New Mexico's Supreme Court steps in after GOP-led commission refuses to recognize primary results over bogus voting machine concerns
The three-person commission in Otero County refused to certify the results of a June 7 primary elec…
Jake Epstein
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New Mexico's Supreme Court steps in after GOP-led commission refuses to recognize primary results over bogus voting machine concerns
The three-person commission in Otero County refused to certify the results of a June 7 primary elec…
Jake Epstein
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A GOP commission in New Mexico won't recognize primary results because its members say they distrust Dominion voting machines
The commission members raised overall concerns about Dominion's vote tabulating machines, though th…
Matthew Loh
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A New Mexico Republican was removed from office just last year for the same reason that Trump was ordered off the 2024 Colorado ballot
In September 2022, a New Mexico judge ordered the removal of Couy Griffin after he was convicted of…
Bryan Metzger
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NAACP backs banning New Mexico official and Cowboys for Trump co-founder from public office, citing his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
The NAACP offered its support to an ongoing lawsuit filed in June by three New Mexicans saying Couy…
Taylor Ardrey
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A judge removed Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin from elected office over his role in the Capitol attack
A New Mexico judge declared the Capitol attack an insurrection and invokved a constitutional clause…
C. Ryan Barber
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Election skeptics failed to derail a local vote certification in New Mexico, but previewed uncertainty and unrest in the 2022 midterms
The court system averted disaster in New Mexico, but similar scenarios playing out around the count…
Grace Panetta
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Watchdog group says it will try to use the 14th amendment to disqualify Trump from running for president again in 2024
In sending a letter to the former president, CREW noted that a local official in New Mexico was rem…
Bryan Metzger
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Former Trump lawyer thinks the ex-president risks being disqualified from office over his handling of January 6 riot
Ex-White House lawyer Ty Cobb said Trump's inaction on January 6 "clearly gave aid and comfort to t…
Grace Panetta
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'Cowboys for Trump' co-founder who stormed Capitol is in isolation for refusing COVID-19 test in detention
Judge rules "simply taking a COVID-19 test, something hundreds of millions of people have safely do…
Azmi Haroun
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ICE fast-tracked the release of immigrants 'on their deathbeds' so that they wouldn't die under the agency's watch, per internal emails obtained by LA Times
Per the Los Angeles Times, the 16,000 documents it obtained highlight a pattern of ICE shifting res…
Azmi Haroun
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'Cowboys for Trump' leader detained by FBI after pledging to bring guns to DC
Couy Griffin, an elected Republican county commissioner in New Mexico, took part in the January 6 i…
Charles Davis
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'Cowboys for Trump' founder Couy Griffin arrived to federal court in his signature black hat as his January 6 trial gets started just blocks from the US Capitol
Couy Griffin's trial comes just weeks after a jury in DC found Guy Reffitt guilty on charges tied t…
C. Ryan Barber
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New Mexico Republicans cancel rally after controversial paramilitary group and other speakers pull out
The August 22 rally featuring elected Republicans was supposed to pay "special tribute" to the New …
Charles Davis
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'Cowboys for Trump' leader plans to bring guns to DC on the day of Biden's inauguration
If he follows through, Couy Griffin, a county commissioner in New Mexico, could be breaking the law…
Charles Davis
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Texas secession? Civil war? Threats of violence — or worse — loom over the 2022 midterm elections
The government is on alert ahead of the 2022 midterms. Experts say the possibility of the political…
Camila DeChalus
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New Mexico Republicans to pay 'special tribute' to militia founded by neo-Confederate, alongside Cowboys for Trump leader who said Black athletes should 'go back to Africa'
"It's deeply troubling that the local GOP would openly endorse an event honoring a paramilitary gro…
Charles Davis
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The woman who was forcibly dragged by police from a Southwest Airlines flight is now reportedly facing multiple charges
After Daulatzai was removed from the plane, she was taken into custody and charged with failure to …
Cadie Thompson
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Here's how Houston will get rid of Harvey's extreme flood water
"The more we build, the more dense developments get, and the more that we pave over, the natural dr…
Leanna Garfield
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Half the undocumented immigrants rounded up in February raids had no criminal records or minor offenses
FILE - In this May 25, 2010 file photo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent walks down the…