Even New Mexico's Democrat AG refuses to defend Gov. Lujan Grisham's unconstitutional gun ban

Self-identifies as a dictator

The New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez refuses to defend Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's illegal gun order, which faces a number of lawsuits. He told the governor in a letter on Tuesday that he believed the so called emergency order violates state and federal constitutions as it bans law abiding folks from carrying firearms in public spaces across Bernalillo County.

Torrez wrote: “I am writing to inform you that my office will not defend your administration in the above referenced cases challenging” Lujan Grisham’s order.

“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,” his letter continued. “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.”

Because it doesn't. It's a power-grab and will fail in court, but in the meanwhile, it may be put in place before it is heard there. Predictably, many law enforcement officials have said that they will not enforce the order because they plan to live up to their oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Lujan Grisham is domestic.

Lujan Grisham signed an executive order on Friday that banned open and concealed carrying firearms in Albuquerque and the rest of the surrounding county. The governor enacted the order — to remain in place for 30 days — after a spate of shootings that killed several children by scumbags who obviously will not abide by the order, leaving the rest of the public defenseless. 

She's not the brightest light in the tool shed.

“The tragic deaths of 5-year-old Galilea Samaniego in a recent drive-by shooting and 11-year-old Froylan Villegas in a road rage incident should serve as a wakeup call to everyone,” Torrez wrote. “I encourage you to engage in a more thoughtful and deliberative process with members of the New Mexico Legislature rather than taking unilateral action that infringes on the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens while having little if any discernible impact on the underlying dynamics driving gun violence in our community.”

New Mexico Attorney General tells the Governor that he won't defend her carry ban, saying "I do not believe it passes constitutional muster." pic.twitter.com/ORat27wAvn

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy)

Torrez, a Democrat, joins a handful of other officials in refusing to enforce or defend the order. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, also a Democrat, said in a statement to social media that the city’s police force would not be responsible for enforcing the governor’s order. Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen announced on Monday that he would not enforce the order either, calling it unconstitutional.

Dictator Lujan Grisham responded to Allen in a statement to the NM Political Report, saying that her administration had “given you the tools, Sheriff Allen — now stop being squeamish about using them. I will not back down from doing what’s right and I will always put the safety of the people of New Mexico first.”

He isn't being squeamish; he's being patriotic.

Lujan Grisham said in an interview on CNN: “It’s not for police to tell me what’s constitutional or not. They haven’t supported one, not one gun violence effort in the State of New Mexico including domestic violence protections, universal background checks.”

The guns have not responded to her comments against them.

Hopefully, Lujan Grisham will be impeached and soon thrown out of office.

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NM Gov. gets her comeuppance on gun-ban move

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-of course) seems to believe that she has the authority to ban law abiding citizens from being allowed to carry guns in Albuquerque and the surrounding county for the next 30 days or more.

The far-left governor signed an executive order Thursday stating that gun violence is a public health emergency, implying that her definition of health is twisted. While health is the state of being free from illness or injury, the gun "health emergency" is more of a societal problem which the left refuses to address.

On Friday, Grisham used her political position to suspend open and concealed carry laws in Albuquerque and the surrounding area and threatened to lengthen or renew her unconstitutional order.

Although she basically agreed that her order might be unconstitutional and she might lose in court, she went ahead and became New Mexico's first dictator.

Her decision was so crazy that even far, far-left anti-gun activist David Hogg criticized her.

“I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution,” Hogg posted on X.

I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/6GfbOZLc7g

Even far, far-leftist and anti-intelligence Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) had negative words about Grisham's executive order, causing many Republicans to experience the vapors upon hearing his words of reason:

“I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution,” Lieu wrote on X. “No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.”

New Mexico GOP state Reps. Stefani Lord and John Block on Saturday said that they were going forward to impeach Grisham.

“I am calling on counsel to begin the impeachment process against Governor Grisham,” Lord said. “This is an abhorrent attempt at imposing a radical, progressive agenda on an unwilling populous. Rather than addressing crime at its core, Governor Grisham is restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Even Grisham believes this emergency order won’t prohibit criminals from carrying or using weapons; a basic admission that this will only put New Mexicans in danger as they won’t be able to defend themselves from violent crime.”

Block said that there was “no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.”

And what makes anyone on the left really believe that if you take the rights of law abiding individuals to defend themselves, that lawless miscreants would go along with the gun ban? All it serves to do is leave the good people of Albuquerque defenseless.

Elon Musk responded on his X platform to Grisham’s order posting: 

At risk of stating what should be obvious, deliberately violating the Constitution is next-level illegal.

How soon can this person be removed from office?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2023

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded, “She’s nuts, but she’s taking what the tyrants did during COVID (forced jabs, travel bans, closed businesses, suppressed speech — with no laws passed) to the next level.”

She's also doing what the Nazis did to the public by taking away their means of self-defense against a tyrannical government. Who does she think she is anyway? Gretchen Whitmer?

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NM Gov. Grisham pays $60K+ in alleged crotch-grabbing settlement

New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham paid James Hallinan, a former campaign staffer, no less than $62,500 in a legal settlement after he accused her of grabbing his crotch in 2018, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The alleged incident was said to have occurred in the home of state Rep. Deborah Armstrong during a strategy meeting several months before the 2018 election.

Hallinan told the Santa Fe New Mexican that Grisham dumped water in his lap and then reached toward his "junk."

"Governor Lujan Grisham and Mr. Hallinan have resolved any differences or issues to their satisfaction. I am not able to provide any further information," Hallinan's attorney Rachel Berlin Benjamin told Fox News in a statement.

Both Lujan Grisham’s office and Armstrong have denied any such event occurred, but that's what you'd expect them to say. #BelieveAllMen

Lujan Grisham and the campaign "strenuously deny that there is any merit or truth to Mr. Hallinan’s claims, including his claims about difficulty finding or keeping work after the campaign," campaign spokesman Jared Leopold told the Albuquerque Journal. Leopold's crotch remains untouched by politicians.

"They reached a settlement in order to avoid the continuing distraction and significant expense of possible litigation and allow them to concentrate on working for the people of New Mexico during this pandemic," was the excuse given. #BelieveAllMen

Hallinan said he’d been assaulted in front of Armstrong, Grisham’s campaign adviser Dominick Cabello and two staffers. The governor’s spokeswoman, Nora Meyers Sackett, said: "We’re a rambunctious bunch. I think they were playing around with water." Aha!

Hallinan [who may be gay or just looking for a payday] later tweeted that he’d endured "long, horrific abuse" under Grisham and accused her staff of trying to cover it up. He said he felt as if he’d been "under her thumb." 

It sounds like it was more than just her thumb.


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NM Gov. has her own version of social justice--spending taxpayer money on booze, groceries

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) got caught with her hand in the cookie jar and the tequila bottle after she spent about $13,500 of taxpayers' money for alcohol, dry cleaning, groceries, and who knows what else. The cash came from a taxpayer-supported expense fund, according to the Sante Fe New Mexican.

The booze bill included more than $200 spent in September for: 5 bottles of tequila; 2 bottles of vodka; 2 bottles of Merlot, and single bottles of whiskey and gin, the report said.

The governor also hosted in-person staff meetings at the governor's mansion while simultaneously warning the taxpaying public to avoid mixing households to suppress the spread of the coronavirus. Sounds familiar?f

About half the $13,500, spent over six months, went toward food for the governor’s Cabinet members and staffers during those meetings, Grisham spokesman Tripp

Stelnicki told The Associated Press. 

Although Democrats seemed fine with the governor's spending, state Republicans were quite outraged over her spending of taxpayer's money.

"I didn’t realize the governor was so underpaid that she has to use discretionary money for things that she should be paying for herself," state House Minority Whip Rod Montoya, a Republican, told the New Mexican. "Legislators are all up here doing our job, and we’re doing it on per diem."

Other state Republicans were also vocal about Grisham's spending like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse, which is not intended as an insult to sailors nor to sex workers.

After the New Mexican’s report appeared, Grisham addressed the matter Friday in a virtual news conference.

"I don’t want New Mexicans to feel like I don’t take seriously their hardship," Grisham told reporters and said that she didn't personally make the purchases.

Grisham, 61, is a native of New Mexico and is in her first term as governor after serving in the U.S. House and prior to that as the state’s health secretary. She has taken heat from businesses because of her coronavirus restrictions that she is willing to overlook when it comes to her own behavior.

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