ALBUQUERQUE, MARCH 6—Today, the New Mexico Supreme Court issued a 3-2 split decision in Amdor v. Grisham, upholding most of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s sweeping public health emergency orders from 2023 while striking down the suspension of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI).
The Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM), alongside Republican legislators and gun rights advocates, filed this lawsuit in September 2023 to challenge the Governor’s unconstitutional overreach, including her attempt to ban the legal carrying of firearms in public spaces under the guise of a “public health emergency.” While the orders have expired, this ruling sets a dangerous precedent, particularly as it comes just as the state legislature is debating new gun rights legislation.
The Court’s majority rubber-stamped the Governor’s expansive interpretation of the Public Health Emergency Response Act (PHERA), granting her near-unlimited power to declare emergencies and impose restrictions on New Mexicans’ freedoms.
But even in this defeat, there’s a silver lining: two justices, Michael E. Vigil and Briana H. Zamora, sounded the alarm, warning that this decision opens the door to unchecked executive power. Justice Vigil wrote, “The majority’s conclusion… leaves it totally in the discretion of any governor to assume sweeping emergency powers for any reason the governor chooses.” Justice Zamora added, “I am guided by my apprehension that the unconstrained exercise of emergency executive powers the majority has approved in this instance could readily be misused.”
“These courageous dissents confirm what Republicans have been saying all along: Democrats are setting the stage to go even further to threaten every New Mexican’s constitutional freedoms,” said Republican Party of New Mexico Chairwoman Amy Barela.
“This is why Republicans fought back. We sued to defend your Second Amendment rights, your right to due process, and your right to a government that respects the rule of law—not one that exploits vague statutes to control your life.
“The dissenting justices’ warnings prove our point: without a check on this power, what’s next? Will a future Democratic governor declare an ’emergency’ over climate change to seize property? Ban free speech to combat ‘misinformation’? The majority’s ruling says they can—and Democrats will. Governor Lujan Grisham’s actions are just the beginning.
“That’s why we must elect a Republican governor in 2026 and a Republican legislature to take back our state. Democrats have shown their hand. They’ll keep expanding executive power, eroding your liberties, ignoring the Constitution, and they’ll go even further than Lujan Grisham if we let them. Republicans are your shield against this tyranny. We’re fighting for your God-given rights, your family, and your future.”
To read the dissenting arguments from the New Mexico Supreme Court decision, click HERE.
(Dissents start on page 84)
As usual, complaints NM GOP leaders make against our Democratic governor is exactly the opposite of the excuses they make for Trump.
Mea culpa, it is “complaints. . .are,” not “complaints. . .is.”
“As usual, complaints NM GOP leaders against our Democratic governor is exactly the opposite of the excuses they make for Trump”. Look who’s talking. You make excuses for your side, the Democratic Party, every single day of the week, month, and year. And you’ve been doing it for years. You put Americans who were exercising their First Amendment rights to peacefully and patriotically protest the results of an election and Americans who simply took pictures and were thrown in prison for 20-40 years, just for taking pictures and Americans who were invited, not stormed, but invited into the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically protest the results of an election, into prison. And what did you Democrats do? You made excuses, including claiming that all those Americans were “domestic terrorists” and “trying to overthrow the government” or were “inciting an insurrection” when there was no insurrection whatsoever incited by Trump or his supporters on January 6. Another excuse you Dems have made? Women’s sports. You Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole, allowed men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual women but men, or “transgender women” aka men, grown men, to compete in women’s sports and change in women’s locker rooms. And what was your excuse? To further a gender ideology that doesn’t work. Another excuse, is regarding the Palestine/Israel conflict. Hamas, the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority, Iran, Hezbollah, are all the same people. They hate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and they are all anti-Semitic. They all hate the United States of America and it’s people for existing and they all want to obilerate and annihilate us and the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and homosexuals, all homosexuals, for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality. The Hamas Covenant even states and proves that the Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Palestinian Authority, are indeed the same people. The Islamic Resistance Movement is Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist group who advocates for the annihilation and eradication and the obileration of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and homosexuals, all homosexuals, for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality and they advocate for the annihilation of the United States of America and it’s people for existing. The Palestinians have voted and have elected into they’re own government members of Hamas aka the Islamic Resistance Movement, terrorists, since 2006 if not longer. The Hamas Covenant states that not only does Hamas have the right to commit atrocious acts on innocent people in Israel and not only does Hamas have the right to annihilate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and in the name of jihad and not only does Hamas have the right to persecute the Jewish people for existing and for they’re faith, but it states that the Palestinians have the right to do the same thing. It says it in the Hamas Covenant. Hamas and the Palestinians are the same people along with Iran, the largest sponsor of terrorism on Earth and Hezbollah another terrorist group and the Palestinian Authority, a socialist group who supports the Palestinians who therefore support Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran. They are the same people. And you Democrats are funding money and supplies to the Palestinians, therefore, you are supporting terrorism and jihad and the annihilation of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, as well as homosexuals, all homosexuals, for existing and for they’re faith and for they’re sexuality. The Palestinians aka Hamas aka Iran aka Hezbollah aka the Palestinian Authority hate homosexuals for existing and for they’re sexuality. They have been known to have thrown homosexuals off of buildings and killing them including beheading them on national or international television, as well as Jewish people and Christians. This is what you Democrats are funding. And what is your excuse? “Free Palestine, free Palestine, free Palestine!” and what you will. That is your excuse for funding a race of people who for the most part and maybe not all Palestinians are like this, but the majority of them, hate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and for they’re faith and who hate all homosexuals for existing and for they’re sexuality and who hate the United States of America and it’s people for existing and who have voted and have elected into they’re own government members of a terrorist group Hamas who advocates for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people and all homosexuals for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality and who advocate for the annihilation and eradication of the United States of America and it’s people for existing, who are in cohoots with Iran, the largest sponsor of terrorism on Earth who funded Hamas and the Palestinians to attack Israel unprovoked on October 7 of 2023 and therefore murdered and raped and burned alive innocent people in Israel including women and children, and who are also associated with the Palestinian Authority, and who have been proven by the what the Hamas Covenant states in that the Palestinians and Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran and the Palestinian Authority are all the same people who advocate for the annihilation and eradication of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and the United States of America and it’s people for existing and for they’re faith and advocate for the annihilation and eradication of all homosexuals for existing and for they’re sexuality. I mean, you can say “Islamic Resistance Movement” when talking about Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran. They’re all the same people. They’re advocates of terrorism and jihad and the persecution of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and for the annihilation and eradication of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing, as well as all homosexuals for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality. And they advocate for the annihilation and eradication of the United States of America and it’s people for existing as well. Why do you think that they shout out “Death To America!” on a daily basis? They want to obilerate and annihilate the United States of America and it’s people. That is what Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinians themselves all want to do. They hate the United States of America and it’s people for existing. And they hate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and they hate all homosexuals for existing as well. Gays For Palestine shouldn’t be supporting Palestine, let alone the Palestinians. The Palestinians are associated with Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran and the Palestinian Authority, all of whom who are advocates for jihad and terrorism and jihad among the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and the United States of America and homosexuals for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality. The Hamas Covenant proves this to a tee and if you don’t believe me, then maybe you should read it, all of it. It proves that the Palestinians and Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran and the Palestinian Authority are all the same people. They are advocates for jihad and terrorism and genocide as well as for the annihilation and eradication of not just the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and for they’re faith, not just for the annihilation and eradication of homosexuals, all homosexuals across the globe, for existing and for they’re sexuality, but they advocate for the annihilation and eradication of the United States of America and it’s people for existing as well. There is no difference between the Palestinians, Hamas aka the Islamic Resistance Movement, Iran, and the Palestinian Authority. They are the same people who want to obilerate and annihilate the United States of America and it’s people and who want to obilerate and annihilate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people for existing and want to obilerate and annihilate and eradicate homosexuals, all homosexuals, for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality. And when you make excuses for funding money and supplies to the Palestinians, therefore funding terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran indirectly, including saying “Free Palestine! Free Palestine! Free Palestine!” and all that, you are therefore sympathizing and are supporting terrorism and jihad and genocide of innocent people in the nation of Israel and you are supporting the persecution of the Jewish people and Christians as well as homosexuals for existing and for they’re faith and for they’re sexuality. Why else would you supporters of Palestine support pro-Palestine protesters targeting Jewish people across college and university campuses across the United States and the globe just because they are Jewish? Excuses. Denial. Hypocrisy. That is what you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole across the United States of America all represent. You can’t accept the fact that you have been funding money and supplies to a group of people the Palestinians who are associated with terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah because they have voted and have elected into they’re own government members of Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as being associated with largest sponsor of terrorism on Earth, Iran, who have been funding Hamas and the Palestinians to attack Israel unprovoked and slaughter innocent people in Israel including murdering and raping and burning alive innocent people in Israel including women and children, and who all hate the United States of America and it’s people just as much as they do the nation of Israel and the Jewish people and homosexuals all homosexuals for existing and for they’re faith and sexuality. They, meaning the Palestinians, Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority, they all hate the United States of America and it’s people just as much as they do the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, as well as all homosexuals across the globe, for existing and for they’re faith and for they’re sexuality and for what they stand for. And the Hamas Covenant proves this to a tee. And instead of realizing this, you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole across the United States of America make excuses just to continue funding money and supplies to the same people who want to obilerate and annihilate you and other Americans in the United States of America just because you hate Israel and the Jewish people. And how ironic is it that some of the Democrats including far-left progressive ones like Robert Reich, who support Palestine and the Palestinians, are Jewish themselves? How ironic is that? Jewish people, on the Democratic side, in the Democratic Party, including Robert Reich, are funding money and supplies and support funding money and supplies to the same people who hate them and who want to obilerate and annihilate and eradicate and persecute them and who want to wipe them off the face of the planet for existing and for they’re faith? And how ironic is it that there are groups out there like Gays For Palestine who are supporting and funding money and supplies to the same people who want to obilerate and annihilate and eradicate them from the face of the planet? This is who you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones and groups like Gays For Palestine are supporting and funding money and supplies to. You are supporting and funding money and supplies to the same people i.e the Palestinians, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority, who all want to obilerate and annihilate and eradicate the nation of Israel and the Jewish people in Israel and across the globe for existing and for they’re faith and who want to obilerate and annihilate and eradicate homosexuals, all homosexuals and wipe them off the face of the planet, and who all want to obilerate and annihilate and eradicate the United States of America and it’s people for existing. That is who you Democrats including far-left progressive ones are funding money and supplies to and supporting. And instead of realizing this, you decide to continue making excuses to continue funding money and supplies to them. No wonder why you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole lost in November and no wonder why you’re approval rating nationwide is at 30% and still declining.
Excuses. Denial. Hypocrisy. That is what you represent Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole. And that cost you in November. And you continue to do so now, which is costing you support and approval nationwide. You can’t accept the fact that the guy who you hate the most, Trump, and his supporters and other common sense minded Americans, beat you fair and square back in November in the presidency, Congress, the United States Senate, and other offices. You can’t accept it can you? Instead, you want to whine, complain, deny, and make excuses for it just because you hate Trump and his supporters and other common sense minded Americans just because they support the true values of this country like freedom of speech and securing the border and supporting Israel and protecting women’s sports from men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual biological women but men because they still have DNA and X Y chromosomes to prove that they are still men and freedom of religion and religious liberty and the Electoral College and the Second Amendment and the First Amendment, etc. That is who you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole are. You are people who want to whine and complain and deny and make excuses for yourselves and the people who you vote for, including Joe Biden and Michelle Lujan Grisham and others like them, the things that they do to ruin and destroy our country and then pin it all on Trump and his supporters and other common sense minded Americans just because you hate Trump and the true values of this country. That’s who you are. You do it all of the time. And that can cost you. And it definitely cost you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole back in November. You lost in November because you made excuses and you denied and you whined and complained about how Trump supposedly committed “34 felonies” that was solely based on hearsay and rumors which are overwhelmingly inaccurate the majority of the time because they are not actual verifiable and physical evidence or proof to prove it, and how the border was “secured” under Joe Biden when clearly and the overwhelming majority of Americans including other Democrats could see that the border was not secured under Biden because he is the one who opened up the border to allow millions of illegals including terrorists from Hamas, etc to come into our country and commit atrocious acts on innocent Americans in the thousands including Laken Riley. And you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole made and continue to make excuses for Biden and his screwups, all in the name of “sticking it to Trump” because you hate him because you know that he is more of a U.S President than Biden or Kamala Harris would ever be or even dream of ever being. And that is why you lost in November and why you continue to lose day by day. Why do you think Trump won the highest percentage of votes probably in the history of the United States of not in decades? Why do you think that Trump won the highest percentage of counties and areas including ones who have been historically Democratic strongholds? Why do you think that Trump won the highest percentage of states in the United States including blue states like California and why do you think that the overwhelming majority of Americans including Democrats all across the United States voted for him and why do you think that Trump won the popular vote and the Electoral College? It’s not because he’s a “felon” or “racist” or anything like that. It’s because the overwhelming majority of Americans including Democrats were tired of the rising crime, rising food and gas prices, tired of the inflation, tired of the open border policies that allowed millions of illegals to invade our country and ruin our country, and because the fact that you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones including those who are in power screwed up on everything and every issue that there is. That is why you lost in November and you just can’t accept it can you? You want to instead whine and complain about how Trump actually securing the border and deporting illegals back to where they came from and actually detaining violent illegal immigrants who commit atrocious acts on innocent Americans just like Laken Riley is “racist” or “inhumane” or whatever. That’s not inhumane. You know what is inhumane? How about the fact that children, little children, were being sex trafficked by the illegal immigrants who you were letting into this country. That is inhumane and it’s child abuse. You know what else is inhumane? The illegal immigrants who you let into this country who smuggled unprecedented amounts of fentanyl into this country that caused thousands of innocent Americans to die or be harmed by. And the illegal immigrants who you let into this country who brutally murdered and raped innocent Americans in the thousands including Laken Riley who was only calling the police because an illegal immigrant who wasn’t even supposed to be in the United States in the first place was breaking the law by trespassing onto her property. And she, along with thousands of Americans were brutally murdered or raped for it. That is inhumane. Yet, you want to say that securing the border and actually detaining violent illegal immigrants who commit atrocious acts on innocent Americans and that actually deporting illegals back to where they came from like were supposed to do is “inhumane”. Just proves more and more why you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole lost in November. And you’ve done the same thing regarding women’s sports too. Trump’s actually protecting women’s sports from men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual women but men and is actually making women’s sports about actual biological women because that is why it’s called women’s sports. And yet, you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole want to make excuses and whine and complain about how that is supposedly “homophobic” or “transphobic” or whatever. You are the same people who advocate for a little 3-year old child to have his gender changed through gender reassignment surgery to further a gender ideology that doesn’t work. And you are the same people who have allowed men who become women through gender reassignment surgery aka not actual biological women, but men because they still have DNA and X Y chromosomes to prove that they are still men, to compete in women’s sports and change in women’s locker rooms. And yet, you want to lecture us about how bringing back women’s sports to actual biological women, not men or “transgender women(same people)” is somehow “transphobic” or “homophobic”. Proves more and more why you lost in November Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole. It’s obvious to me from that that you don’t know basic and simple biology. Men cannot become women. When you are born genetically and biologically as a man, you stay a man for your entire life, even if you have gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. It doesn’t matter. You still have DNA and X Y chromosomes proving that you are a man. And vice versa. That is basic and simple biology. Now, if any of you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole understood that, then we wouldn’t have a problem now would we? And if you actually understood that, then you wouldn’t have lost in November and you wouldn’t be losing support nationwide now would you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones? You screwed up on that one big time and that is why you lost in November. But yet, you far-left progressive Democrats including you JH Cole want to whine and complain and make excuses every bad thing and bad policy you’ve ever made and you want to instead whine and complain about how Trump and his administration and other common sense minded Americans are actually bringing back the true values and policies of the United States and supporting the true values of this country. That is who you are and what you Democrats including you far-left progressive ones like you JH Cole represent. Denial. Hypocrisy. Excuses. That is who you are as a party, Democrats including you far-left progressive ones. This is who you are and this is what you represent. No wonder why you lost in November.