Anonymous ID: 762fb9 Feb. 23, 2025, 5:11 p.m. No.22643465   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3762 >>3879 >>4036 >>4065 >>4125 >>4203

Dec 2023 - Maine's Secretary of State took candidate Trump off of the 2024 primary Presidential Ballot as an "insurrectionist" (until Supreme Court directed otherwise).

 

On December 29, 2023, "Maine’s top election officialremoved former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot,in a shock decision based on the 14th Amendment’s“insurrectionist ban.”…

 

"In her decision, Bellows concluded that she has a legal obligation to adhere to the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban and remove Trump from the primary ballot."

 

"'The oath I swore to uphold the Constitution comes first above all, and my duty under Maine’s election laws … is to ensure that candidates who appear on the primary ballot are qualified for the office they seek,' she said."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html

 

Trump Ban From 2024 Maine Presidential Ballot Withdrawn 3 Months Later

 

“The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individual states lack authority to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to federal offices,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wrote in a modified ruling, obtained by The Hill. “Consistent with my oath and obligation to follow the law and the Constitution, and pursuant to the Anderson decision, I hereby withdraw my determination that Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid.”

 

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4507071-maine-withdraws-trump-ballot-ban/ (3/2024)