A special prosecutor for the San Juan County District Attorney’s Office has been forced to resign her position as a state representative after a federal court ruled she could not hold both positions.
Andrea Reeb, a Republican from Clovis, who has served in the New Mexico House of Representatives since 2023, announced her decision to resign her elected position on Oct. 13.
This came after the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico ruled in Baldwin v. Morrissey that holding both roles violated the separation-of-powers provision of Article III, Section 1 of the New Mexico Constitution…