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There's an important hearing in Maine this morning on whether Donald Trump should be kept off the ballot as disqualified from office under the 14th amendment.
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https://www.pressherald.com/2023/12/08/maine-secretary-of-state-receives-three-challenges-to-trump-appearing-on-primary-ballot/
The Maine secretary of state has received three challenges to former President Donald Trump appearing on the presidential primary ballot.
Former Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling and two former state lawmakers, Tom Saviello and Kimberly Rosen, together filed a challenge to Trump appearing on the ballot in a letter to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows dated Friday.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Commit to Caucus rally on Dec. 2, in Ankeny, Iowa. Matthew Putney/Associated Press
Mary Anne Royal, of Winterport, and Paul Gordon, of Portland, each filed letters with Bellows challenging Trump’s appearance on the ballot. All three letters were submitted prior to the department’s 5 p.m. deadline for receiving challenges on Friday.
“We intend to issue a notice of hearing for any properly filed challenge on Monday morning to the parties to the challenge,” Emily Cook, spokesperson for the Department of the Secretary of State, said in an email. She said the department will assess the challenges Monday to see if they meet all state requirements.
The filings come as the Republican frontrunner’s place on ballots is being challenged across the country. Challenges have been filed in at least 32 states, according to the blog Lawfare, which is tracking such efforts. It does not list any successful challenges to date.
Challengers in other states argue Trump should be ineligible because the 14th Amendment prohibits people from holding office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Strimling, Saviello and Rosen also cited the 14th Amendment in their letter to Bellows, written by attorney Benjamin Gaines, saying Trump engaged in insurrection, contrary to his oath to support the Constitution, and is now ineligible to hold office.
In addition to serving as Portland mayor from 2015 to 2019, Strimling also served three terms in the Maine Senate as a Democrat. Saviello and Rosen both served as Republican state lawmakers.
“The constitution commands that, having sworn an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ it, and then having desecrated that oath by directing a violent mob to storm the capitol while Congress was performing a core constitutional function essential to the transition of power, Trump is ineligible to hold any office under the United States, least of all president,” Gaines wrote in the letter sent to Bellows.
The secretary of state then has seven days to provide notice of and hold a public hearing on the challenge, and five days from the date of the hearing to rule on the challenge. State law also provides a process for appealing the ruling in court.
Trump is among six Republican candidates who qualified for the March primary ballot in Maine. The others are: Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota; Ryan Binkley, a Texas businessman and pastor; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley; and Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur from Ohio.
Burgum has since announced that he is suspending his campaign. Cook, the spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office, said they did not receive petitions from Asa Hutchinson, a former Arkansas governor who is also running for president.