Re: Should anti-gun NM Governor be charged w same crime Trump is charged with?

[Wayne]

On 14 Sep 2023, HangTextDrivers <hangtex...@gmail.com> posted some
news:20220301-9fa0-438e...@googlegroups.com:

> Truth is section 241 is a very broadly-written and thus stupid law.
> A group of people merely handing out anti-gun or anti-abortion
> pamphlets could be convicted of a 241 violation.
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-mexico-governor-should-face-federa
> l-charges-gun-control-power-grab-former-prosecutor
>
> sep 14 2023 Former prosecutor Andy McCarthy wrote a column this week
> suggesting New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham should face federal
> charges under the same statute the Justice Department is using to
> charge former President Donald Trump over her move to suspend
> constitutional gun rights in her state
>
> In a National Review column Monday, McCarthy, a Fox News contributor
> and former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District
> of New York, explained that Section 241 of the federal penal code,
> which is being used by Special Counsel Jack Smith to charge Trump,
> could be used for Grisham.
>
> "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
> intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,
> Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right
> or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United
> States, or because of his having so exercised the same[,] … [t]hey
> shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years,
> or both," the statute says.
>
> McCarthy writes, "Obviously, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D.,
> N.M.) and her subordinates have conspired to injure, oppress,
> threaten, and intimidate Americans in New Mexico in the free exercise
> and enjoyment of their Second Amendment rights.

She should be ridden out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered.