The US state of Maine disqualified Trump from running in the primary elections there
The chief election official in the US state of Maine excluded former President Donald Trump from the Republican Party primaries for the presidential elections scheduled for 2024, making Maine the second state after Colorado to exclude the former president because of his role in the attack on the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
The US state of Maine ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run in the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential elections, a week after a similar decision.
The Supreme Court in Colorado, against the backdrop of a crowd of his supporters storming the Congress headquarters in 2021.
In an official document, the Democratic official in the state of Maine, Sheena Bellows, in charge of organizing the elections, announced that Trump is “unqualified for the office of president”.
Under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which excludes anyone who participated in acts of “rebellion” From assuming any public responsibility.
Trump will appeal Maine’s decision in court, his campaign spokesman announced, and may go so far as to file a final appeal before the United States Supreme Court.
Trump quickly condemned what he described as a “left-wing extremist” decision, and an “ardent supporter” for Joe Biden.
Trump’s campaign team said, “We’re directly witnessing an attempt to steal elections and deprive the American voter of his right to vote”.
The Colorado Supreme Court had concluded that Trump engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021.
Therefore, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution applies to him because he is deemed unfit to hold the presidency.
The day after the issuance of this ruling, which the Trump campaign announced its intention to appeal before the US Supreme Court, Biden, who aspires to win a second term in the elections scheduled for the end of next year, said that his Republican predecessor definitely supported a rebellion, there is no doubt about that, absolutely, absolutely, zero doubt, and he gives the impression that he is determined to do what he did.
