2023-12-29 21:54:01
The state of Maine, in the northeastern United States, announced this Thursday that magnate Donald Trump will not appear on the 2024 Republican presidential primary ballots, a week after a similar decision in Colorado, in relation to the assault on the Capitol. of 2021.
“He is not qualified to be president” under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which excludes from public responsibility those who have participated in acts of “insurrection,” Shenna Bellows, secretary of state of Maine, in charge of organizing, said in an official document the elections.
“I do not come to this conclusion lightly,” he confessed in the document, in which he added that the assault on the Capitol, seat of the US Congress, was committed “by order, with the full knowledge and support of the outgoing president.”
The decision will be “suspended” in the event of a legal challenge, he added.
Apparently this will be the case, as Trump’s campaign spokesperson announced that the Republican will challenge Maine’s decision in court. It could even be the subject of a final appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Trump was quick to condemn a decision he claimed had been made by “a radical leftist” who was an “ardent supporter” of Joe Biden.
“We are witnessing live an attempted theft of an election and the deprivation of the right to vote of the American voter,” denounced the Republican through his campaign team.
In 2020, the billionaire won one of the electoral districts (responsible for the election of the president and vice president of the United States) in Maine, so Bellows’ decision, if effectively implemented, would have far-reaching consequences in the event of an election. close presidential elections.
Waiting for the Supreme Court
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol, the sanctuary of American democracy, in an attempt to prevent the certification of his Democratic opponent Biden’s victory.
Trump and his most fervent supporters continue to challenge, without evidence, the results of the 2020 election.
The former president was indicted on August 1 at the federal level and then, on August 14, by the state of Georgia, accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 elections.
In several states of the country, various procedures have been launched to block the path of the clear favorite in the Republican primaries.
While Michigan and Minnesota have rejected them, the Colorado Supreme Court was the first, last week, to declare Trump ineligible for his actions during the assault on the Capitol.
For the moment, the decisions of Maine and Colorado only refer to the Republican primaries held in their two states and scheduled for March 5 among fifteen states, during “Super Tuesday.”
The Colorado judges declared themselves “aware of entering uncharted territory” in their decision ordering the electoral authorities of this western state to remove Donald Trump’s name from the ballots for the 2024 Republican primaries.
Biden reacted to this decision and said that Trump had “without a doubt supported an insurrection.” “There is no doubt about it, none,” he declared.
But until the Supreme Court rules, ballots will continue to have to include the former president’s name in both Colorado and Maine.
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