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Former President Donald Trump has asked a Maine court to overturn the secretary of state’s determination to take away him from the 2024 main poll there due to his function within the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, announced her decision final week, saying that she had a authorized obligation to take away Trump from the poll beneath a Civil Conflict-era provision of the Structure that prohibits those that “engaged in riot” from holding workplace.
Bellows paused her determination, which solely applies to Maine, in order that Trump might enchantment it in court docket earlier than the presidential main election there on March 5, 2024.
Trump is dealing with comparable 14th Modification challenges to his candidacy in different states, together with Colorado the place the state Supreme Court docket ordered Trump faraway from the first poll there – a call the previous president plans to enchantment to the US Supreme Court docket.
Any ruling from the US Supreme Court docket can be the ultimate say on whether or not Trump is eligible to seem on the first poll in Colorado, Maine, and different states the place his eligibility is being challenged.
Trump argued Tuesday that the secretary of state is a “biased decisionmaker” who didn’t have the authorized authority to listen to the problem looking for to disqualify him from workplace.
The previous president added that Bellows “ought to have recused herself” from deciding the difficulty, and that she failed to present the previous president “enough time and alternative to current a protection.”
“By submitting his petition and consent as required by the statute, President Trump has met all necessities set forth by the Maine Legislature within the statute and is entitled to be positioned on the Republican main poll,” Trump wrote within the enchantment. “Nonetheless, within the Secretary’s Ruling, the Secretary wrongfully denied President Trump a spot on the Republican main poll.”
Trump additionally argued within the submitting Tuesday that Bellows “failed to supply lawful due course of” and “made a number of errors of regulation and acted in an arbitrary and capricious method.”
“President Trump didn’t ‘interact’ in ‘riot,’” he wrote.
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