2023-12-29 22:15:00
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The Secretary of State alleges that the former president cannot participate in the elections for having participated in an “insurrection” during the assault on the Capitol
29 dic 2023 . Updated at 9:15 p.m.
The Secretary of State of MaineShenna Bellows, decided Thursday to exclude Donald Trump of the Republican primary ballots in your state. According to Bellows, the former president is ineligible given his role in the assault on the Capitol. With the Maine decision, there are already two states that ban Trump in the elections based on the 14th amendment: Bellows’ decision comes a week after the Colorado State Supreme Court, in a historic move, ruled in favor of expelling the Republican from his party’s primaries.
«I am aware that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of access to the polls based on section three of the fourteenth amendment. However, “I am also aware that no presidential candidate has ever participated in an insurrection before.” Bellows stated. According to the Secretary of State, Trump would have been part of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, spreading hoaxes about a non-existent electoral fraud “with the intention of inflaming his supporters and directing them to the headquarters of Congress, to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections and the peaceful transfer of power.”
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The decision of the highest electoral authority of Maine is added to the one made a few days ago by the highest judicial authority of Colorado. In this state, the Supreme Court also decided – on December 19 – to veto Trump from the electoral ballots on the grounds that the former president had participated in an “insurrection” against the Constitution. They are, like this, Two states where Trump could be absent from the Republican primary ballots.
“There are no rules that prevent it”
Other territorial entities of the country, however, they rejected the option a long time ago. It was like this in Minnesota in November. That state’s Supreme Court ruled last month that there is no rule “preventing one of the major political parties from placing on the presidential nomination primary ballot a candidate who is ineligible to hold office.” In the hinge state of Michigan —so nicknamed for its strategic location between different regions and political tendencies—, its Supreme Court took a similar position and stated that “the only event that is going to take place is the presidential primary elections. “Whether Trump is disqualified is irrelevant to his presence on that particular ballot.”
It is an issue that has every sign of ending in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. At the moment, the Colorado Republican Party has already asked the highest judicial body to officially return Trump to the ballot. There, the Colorado Supreme Court decreed last week that, if appealed, its decision to veto the New York millionaire would be kept on hold pending a resolution on the matter. Thus, the request of the state Republicans implies that Trump will appear on the ballots, at least until the US Supreme Court. determine the opposite.
At the moment, it is not known how long it will take for the court to rule on the application of the fourteenth amendment. When it does so, the decision it issues should resolve all the brawls over the tycoon’s ineligibility.
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