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Maine's top trial court has deferred a ruling on whether to uphold or overturn the Maine secretary of state's decision that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on the 2024 primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, also known as the "insurrection clause." Justice Michaela Murphy in Kennebec County Superior Court wrote in a 17-page decision on Wednesday that she wanted to "promote consistency and avoid voter confusion" ahead of the state's March 5 primary by declining to rule on the "unprecedented issues" that are already set to be considered in a separate case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A judge in Maine declined to rule Wednesday, on the secretary of state's decision to remove former President Donald Trump from Maine's primary ballot, pending a decision on a similar case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Maine judge deferred a decision on whether former President Trump is disqualified from the state’s ballot under the 14th Amendment on Wednesday, allowing the Supreme Court to first weigh in on the extraordinary dispute. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) ruled last month that Trump was disqualified, making Maine the second state to…
Election year hadn’t even begun when the Supreme Court of Colorado decided to kick former US President Donald Trump off of the 2024 GOP Presidential primary ballot, per a 4-3 vote by a panel of Democratically appointed Justices. Not to be outdone, a week later the Maine Secretary of State – herself a Democrat elected official pictured posing with President Biden on Instagram, and formerly headed up the Maine ACLU – personally removed The Donald from her state’s ballot.
A majority of Americans in a new survey say they would support the Supreme Court either disqualifying former President Trump from presidential ballots across the country or letting states decide whether to include him on their ballots. Nearly one-third — 30 percent — of respondents in the ABC News/Ipsos survey said they think the justices…
The Democrat-controlled Maine Legislature voted down a Republican effort to impeach the state’s chief election official for kicking former President Trump off the ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. In an 80-60 party-line vote, the state House struck down the impeachment resolution going after Maine Secretary of State Shenna…