After Colorado, Maine considered that the great favorite of the Republicans was “unfit for the office of president” due to the violent assault on the Capitol, committed in 2021 by his supporters who contested the election of Joe Biden.
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He replies. Former US President Donald Trump appealed on Tuesday, January 2, a decision which excluded him from the ballots for the Republican primary in the state of Maine, the second having taken such a measure ten months from now. the presidential election.
A week after a similar decision in Colorado, Maine estimated Thursday that the big favorite of the Republicans was not “not fit for the office of president” due to the violent assault on the Capitol, committed in 2021 by his supporters who contested the election of Democrat Joe Biden. The state invoked the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which excludes from public liability persons who have engaged in acts of“insurrection”.
Nothing prevents him for the moment from being a candidate
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday asked the Maine courts to overturn the decision of Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, calling it “biased leader” Who “acted arbitrarily and capriciously.”
The historic decisions of Maine and Colorado at this stage only relate to the Republican primaries held in these two states on March 5. They will not be applied as long as the legal proceedings challenging them continue.
