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Re: MAINE Dumps TRUMP-NOT Eligible For Election Ballot: Colorado Puts Him BACK in Pri
MAINE Dumps TRUMP: Secretary of State Rules He's NOT Eligible For Election Ballot
Maine's secretary of state, Shanna Bellows, announced her decision on Thursday evening.
Bellows ruled that Trump is not eligible to appear on her state's ballot because he engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021 - violating the 14th Amendment
Colorado Puts Him BACK in 2024 Primary
Daily Mail 29 DEC 2023
Maine has become the second state to disqualify Donald Trump from the primary ballot, citing the 14th Amendment's ban on anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding office.
The decision by Maine's secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, follows a similar conclusion made on December 19 by Colorado's Supreme Court.
Trump's team on Thursday night said they will appeal the decision, as they will in Colorado. On Thursday, the Republican Party in Colorado appealed against their Supreme Court's decision, meaning that he is back on the ballot until an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Bellows, a Democrat, concluded that Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024, incited an insurrection when he spread false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election and then urged his supporters to march on the Capitol to stop lawmakers from certifying the vote.
Bellows suspended her decision until the state Supreme Court ruled on the matter.
Four justices appointed by Democratic governors, Justices, Richard L. Gabriel, Melissa Hart, William W. Hood III and Monica Márquez, all circled, voted to disqualify the former president from Colorado's presidential primary ballot
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