(Washington) Former US President Donald Trump appealed Tuesday a decision that excluded him from the ballots in the Republican primary in the state of Maine, the second having taken such a measure ten months before the ‘presidential election.
A week after a similar decision in Colorado, Maine ruled on Thursday 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 Democrat Joe Biden.
Donald Trump’s lawyers asked Maine courts on Tuesday to overturn the decision of Democratic Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, calling her a “biased leader” who “acted arbitrarily and capriciously.”
The State of Maine, like the Colorado Supreme Court, argued on 14e amendment to the Constitution, which excludes from any public liability people who have engaged in acts of “insurrection”.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol, seat of Congress and sanctuary of American democracy, to try to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
The ex-president was indicted in August at the federal level as well as by the state of Georgia, accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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.
Several procedures have been launched in various states across the country to block the path of the big favorite in the Republican primaries. Michigan and Minnesota rejected them.