Former President Donald Trump formally appealed the choice by Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State, who unilaterally decided that Trump is ineligible to look on the state’s poll, citing the Rebel Clause in Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification to the U.S. Structure
Trump’s attorneys argue that the ruling of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows “was the product of a course of contaminated by bias and pervasive lack of due course of; is unfair, capricious, and characterised by abuse of discretion.”
The attorneys additionally argued that “The Secretary ought to have recused herself as a consequence of her bias in opposition to President Trump, as demonstrated by a documented historical past of prior statements prejudging the difficulty offered.” The attorneys added that Bellows “denied President Trump due course of by failing to offer him enough time and alternative to current a protection.”
“The Secretary lacked statutory authority to listen to the challenges directed to President Trump’s supposed disqualification underneath to [sic] Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification,” the attraction reads.
Trump marketing campaign spokesman Steven Cheung reiterated in an announcement that Bellows “went outdoors of her authority, fully ignoring the Structure when she summarily determined to take away President Trump’s identify from the poll, intervene within the election, and disenfranchise the voters of her state.”
The attraction follows Bellows’ controversial resolution primarily disqualifying Trump from the poll, though it won’t be enforced till the U.S. Supreme Courtroom weighs in.
As Breitbart Information reported:
Within the ruling, Bellows wrote that she held a listening to on December 15 on three challenges to Trump’s nomination. The primary two, she mentioned, “contest Mr. Trump’s qualification for workplace underneath Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification to the U.S. Structure.”
“The third problem, filed by Paul Gordon (the ‘Gordon Problem’), contests Mr. Trump’s qualification underneath the Twenty-Second Modification,” the ruling reads.
“For the explanations set forth under, I conclude that Mr. Trump’s major petition is invalid,” she wrote.
“Particularly, I discover that the declaration on his candidate consent kind is fake as a result of he’s not certified to carry the workplace of the President underneath Part Three of the Fourteenth Modification,” Bellows concluded, doubling down on her place throughout an look on WFEA Radio:
*”resolve who seems on poll”
— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) January 2, 2024
Requested about critics saying it is not Maine Sec State’s job to resolve what a Washington DC revolt is, @shennabellows says ”The report exhibits the occasions of January 6 was an revolt. They had been an assault, not solely on Capitol, however the peaceable switch of energy….”
— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) January 2, 2024
”It is my responsibility to find out if the candidates are certified for the workplace they search.” — Maine SecState @shennabellows on @WFEAradio
— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) January 2, 2024
On @WFEAradio this AM, @shennabellows complains about ”dehumanizing photos” of her posted on social media.
— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) January 2, 2024
Equally, Bellows’ resolution adopted the Colorado Supreme Courtroom ruling in a 4-3 opinion that the Structure’s ‘Rebel Clause’ prohibits former President Trump from showing on the poll, though Trump can be interesting that call, which means his identify will nonetheless seem on the Colorado major poll whereas the method unfolds.
The case is Trump v. Bellows, No. AP-24-01 in Superior Courtroom of Kennebec County, Maine.