The chief election official in the US state of Maine excluded former President Donald Trump from the primary elections scheduled to take place in the state next year, making Maine the second state to exclude the former president due to his role in the attack on the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
Published on: 12/29/2023 – 02:57
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The US state of Maine ruled Thursday that the former president was ineligible Donald Trump To run in the Republican Party primaries for the presidential elections in 2024, a week after a similar decision was taken by the Supreme Court in Colorado, against the backdrop of a crowd of his supporters storming the Congress headquarters in 2021.
In an official document, the Democratic official in the state of Maine, Sheena Bellows, in charge of organizing the elections, announced that Trump is “ineligible for the office of president” under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which excludes anyone who participated in acts of “rebellion” from assuming any public responsibility.
Trump will appeal Maine’s decision in court, his campaign spokesman announced, and may go so far as to file a final appeal before the United States Supreme Court.
Trump quickly condemned what he described as a decision made by a “far-left extremist” and an “ardent supporter” of Joe Biden. The Republican said through his campaign team: “We are directly witnessing an attempt to steal elections and deprive the American voter of his right to vote.”
The Colorado Supreme Court had concluded that Trump “engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021” and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution applied to him as unfit to assume the presidency.
The day after the issuance of this ruling, which the Trump campaign announced its intention to appeal to the US Supreme Court, Biden, who aspires to win a second term in the elections scheduled for the end of next year, said that his Republican predecessor “definitely supported a rebellion. There is absolutely no doubt about that, absolutely, zero doubt.” “It gives the impression that he is determined to do what he did.”
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2023-12-29 01:57:04
