Stabbing the former US president Donald Trump -Yesterday, Tuesday- in the state of Maine’s decision to prevent him from running in the elections the Republican Party Preliminaries for the presidential elections.
Trump’s lawyers asked the judiciary in Maine to nullify the decision issued by Secretary of State Sheena Bellows, and said that the Democratic minister responsible for organizing elections in Maine was “biased and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.”
A week after a similar decision was taken against the former president by the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado, Maine considered that the former president was not qualified to assume the position of president because of his position during the storming of the headquarters of a crowd of his supporters. Congress In January 2021.
Bellows considered that Trump is not qualified to assume the position of President of the United States because the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prevents anyone who participated in acts of rebellion from assuming any public responsibility.
Republicans were quick to defend Trump, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also seeking the party’s nomination.
The two historic decisions issued by Maine and Colorado currently relate to the Republican Party primary elections in these two states, which are scheduled to be held on March 5, and neither of these decisions will enter into force until all appeal procedures have passed.
Divisions appear in other states as well, as courts in Minnesota and Michigan recently issued a ruling in favor of keeping Trump on the ballot in these two states, and another ruling is expected soon in Oregon.
Lawsuits have been filed in several states to block the path for the most likely candidate to win the Republican nomination ticket for the presidential elections that will be held at the end of this year.
Trump is scheduled to appear in court in Washington next March on charges of conspiring to overturn the election results. He is also facing extortion charges in Georgia, where he sought to overturn the election results in this southern state after his defeat.
