Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court after the Colorado state court excluded him from the local Republican primaries. The decision was made under the 14th Amendment, which bars officials involved in insurrections or riots against the constitution they were sworn by from holding public office. Yesterday, the former president of the United States decided to appeal a similar decision in Maine, taken by the secretary of state of the Pine Tree State.
The former president’s lawyers, according to what the “Washington Post” reports, in a document filed in the last few hours have urged the judges to quickly revoke the ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court and to “restore to voters the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.” Judges, they said, should not be allowed to prevent voters from voting for the leading Republican candidate for president. In this case the Court will have to express its opinion on the legitimacy of the mechanism with which the Colorado Supreme Court declared Trump ineligible.
