Former US President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a decision that barred him from voting in the Republican primary in the state of Maine, after he took such action 10 months before the presidential election.
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A week after a similar decision in Colorado, Maine estimated Thursday that the heavy Republican favorite is “unfit to be president” because of the violent attack on the Capitol in 2021 by his supporters who disputed the Democrat's election. be Joe Biden.
Donald Trump's lawyers on Tuesday asked Maine courts to overturn Democratic Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' decision. They called her a “biased leader” who “acted arbitrarily and capriciously.”
The state of Maine, like the Colorado Supreme Court, has invoked the 14th Amendment, which exempts from public liability those who have engaged in “acts of insurrection.”
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol, the seat of Congress and the shrine of American democracy, to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory.
The ex-president was indicted both federally and by the state of Georgia in August, accusing him of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The historic decisions in Maine and Colorado currently apply only to the March 5 Republican primaries in those two states.
They will not be applied as long as the legal proceedings challenging them are ongoing.
In various states across the country, several lawsuits have been initiated to block the big favorite's path to the Republican primaries. Michigan and Minnesota rejected them.