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The US state of Maine ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run in the Republican Party’s presidential primaries in 2024, a week after a similar decision was taken by the Supreme Court in Colorado against the backdrop of a crowd of his supporters storming Congress 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 not qualified to serve as 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, according to what his campaign spokesman announced, and he may go so far as to file a final appeal before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Trump quickly condemned what he described as the decision, and said through his campaign team: “We are directly witnessing an attempt to steal an election and deprive the American voter of his right to vote.”
The Colorado Supreme Court concluded that Trump “engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution applies to him, deeming him unfit to assume the presidency.”
Source: Agence France-Presse
2023-12-30 13:27:46