Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) appealed this Wednesday against the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to expel him from the Republican primaries in that state, The Washington Post reported.
His legal team filed the appeal before the US Supreme Court a day after appealing a similar decision in Maine to the Kennebec Superior Court.
In both states it was considered that the former president and new electoral candidate cannot run for a second term in the White House under section 3 of the XIV Amendment of the Constitution for having participated in an “insurrection.”
The Colorado Supreme Court’s veto was announced on December 19. It was an unprecedented decision and related to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, which took place while Democrat Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Trump was being certified.
Later, on December 28, Maine became the second state to disqualify Trump. In this case, the decision was made by the Secretary of State of Maine, Democrat Shenna Bellows, who is the authority in charge of organizing the elections in that district.
“The issues presented in this petition are of exceptional importance and urgently require prompt resolution by this court,” Trump’s lawyers argued in their appeal to the Supreme Court.
In his opinion, the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision, if implemented, “would unconstitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in Colorado and would likely be used as a model to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters across the country.”
The appeal emphasizes that the United States has a long history of political protests that turned violent and states “nothing Trump did was an insurrection,” so there is no reason to invoke that amendment.
Section 3 of Amendment has provided aid or facilities to enemies of the country.
The paragraph does not explicitly mention the position of president, but in the US federal system each state is responsible for organizing the elections, including the presidential ones, and thus has the power to expel a candidate even if he or she has not been charged, reducing support in the general contest.
Trump’s lawyers argued yesterday in Maine that Bellows’ decision was “the product of a process infected by bias and a widespread lack of due process,” as well as that it “is arbitrary, capricious” and “not supported by evidence.” “substantial in the file.”
In both Maine and Colorado, the primaries will take place on March 5, a day known as Super Tuesday because more than a dozen Republican and Democratic states simultaneously hold primaries to choose which candidate will represent them in the presidential elections.
2024-01-05 01:59:40
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