2023-12-30 03:37:48
Democrat Shenna Bellows is the woman most hated by former President Donald Trump’s followers today. The Secretary of State of Maine has become famous at the end of the year for further complicating the former president’s race to the White House.
She was responsible for delivering the final legal blow to the Republican Party’s main contender for the 2024 elections, by removing her name from the state’s primary ballot, in accordance with the application of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, becoming the second state to take such a measure.
According to Bellows, Trump, over several months and culminating on January 6, 2021, “used a false narrative of voter fraud to incite his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent the certification of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of the power,” he explained.
He further wrote that he was “aware that no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of access to the ballot before” based on the 14th Amendment. “However, I am also aware that no presidential candidate has previously participated in an insurrection,” she added.
Trump’s campaign criticized the decision in a statement shortly after Thursday night’s ruling, repeating familiar claims that the former president is being unfairly targeted.
“We are witnessing, in real time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of American voters. Democrats in blue states are recklessly and unconstitutionally suspending the civil rights of American voters by attempting to eliminate to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.
Maine and Colorado are now the first two states to exclude the former president from their 2024 ballots due to actions he took during and before the attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. And they may not be the only ones. More than 10 states are considering that possibility, which Trump has promised to fight to the end. Cases are still pending in Alaska, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, Wisconsin, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia and South Carolina.
In fact, on January 5, the Supreme Court will have to formally begin reviewing Colorado’s exclusion. Everything will happen in the run-up to the state’s Republican presidential primaries, which will take place on March 5, during what is known as ‘Super Tuesday’, a key date on which 16 states will vote and which may define the race.
The Republican primaries begin next January 15 with the Iowa caucuses and Trump starts as a favorite, according to all polls, to once again face the now president, Democrat Joe Biden, in the November elections for the White House.
Most recently, this week, Michigan ruled in Trump’s favor on this issue, saying it was “not convinced that the issues raised should be reviewed by this court.” Minnesota also decided to keep Trump on the ballot in a decision issued last month.
The case of California, which does not weigh too much in the general election because it is known to be Democratic, was also surprising because the secretary of state refused to eliminate former President Trump from the presidential primary ballot despite the state’s lieutenant governor’s requests for him to did it.
Democrat Shirley Weber published the list of candidates who will appear in the California presidential primaries on March 5, including the former president and ensuring that “although we can agree that the attack on the Capitol and the participation of the former president were abhorrent, there are complex legal issues surrounding this matter,” he wrote.
91 criminal charges
Donald Trump thus ends a 2023 full of judicial proceedings, many of which will be resolved in the middle of the 2024 electoral calendar. They will be primaries, conventions, campaign rallies, which will happen while the magnate takes his plane to Washington or New York, where The other judicial cases accumulate for which he accumulates at least 91 criminal charges that threaten to separate him from repeating as president of the United States.
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