By Jordan Rubin
Donald Trump is disqualified to appear on the Maine governmental main tally in 2024, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows stated on Thursday.
It’s the most recent choice on Trump’s capability to take workplace once again under the 14th Amendment‘s insurrectionist restriction as comparable obstacles install in states throughout the nation.
The Colorado Supreme Court similarly ruled recently that Trump is disqualified, triggering an appeal from the state GOP to the U.S. Supreme Court, which can settle the concern across the country if it uses up the Colorado case. That state court’s judgment versus Trump is on hold pending the result of the appeal, so he’ll likely still be on the Colorado main tally regardless of the choice versus him.
Bellows composed on Thursday that the possibility of a U.S. Supreme Court choice in the Colorado case nullifying her judgment “does not ease me of my duty to act.”
The Democrat Composed that she was conscious that no secretary of state had actually made such a choice in the past, however she observed that “no governmental prospect has actually ever before engaged in insurrection.”
“I do not reach this conclusion gently,” Bellows composed. “Democracy is spiritual.” She went on to explain the occasions of Jan. 6, 2021, as “unmatched and awful.”
“The proof here shows that they happened at the wish of, and with the understanding and assistance of, the outbound President,” she continued. “The U.S. Constitution does not endure an attack on the structures of our federal government[.]
Bellows composed in her judgment, to name a few things, that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment uses to presidents which states can impose that constitutional arrangement without additional congressional action, both of which are objected to concerns that might include in the U.S. Supreme Court appeal because Colorado case.
Unlike in Colorado, for instance, Maine’s secretary of state, instead of a judge, made the eligibility call. Like other states, that choice can be appealed through the state’s courts, so this isn’t always the last word in Maine. On that note, Bellows put her judgment on hold from working pending any appeal.
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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog author. He was a district attorney for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,” a book about the secret war on miracle drugs. Before he signed up with MSNBC, he was a legal press reporter for Bloomberg Law.