The judge Michaela Murphy has found that voters in Maine will be able to vote for the tycoon on March 5, the date the election is scheduled. Area codes. If the Supreme Court ends the litigation before that date, Bellows would be obligated to issue a new decision consistent with state law, she argued.
Murphy was appointed to the position by a Democratic governor in 2007 and later re-elected by the Republicans Paul LePage, Trump supporter. In Maine, such decisions initially go through the secretary of state, but can then be appealed in state courts, CNN reports.
“Democracy is sacred”
This comes after the former president Trump card She appealed the decision in early January, arguing that Bellows was a “biased legislator,” that she “failed to ensure due process of law” and that she “made several legal errors.”
Bellows claimed: “He did not come to this conclusion lightly.“, even though he made the decision because he “used a false narrative of election fraud to incite his supporters and direct them to the Capitol” on January 6th.
“Democracy is sacred (…) I am aware that no Secretary of State has ever denied a presidential candidate access to the polls on the basis of section three of the law Fourteenth Amendment“, he emphasized in his decision last December.
Maine was the second state to bar Trump from state primaries under the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment. This prohibits anyone who has sworn an oath to the constitution and taken part in an insurrection from holding public office again.
However, it is expected that this will be the case Supreme Court It is up to the United States to solve this problem, as other states, such as Michigan or Minnesota, have rejected this positioning. Before Maine it was Colorado Supreme Court the one who issued a surprise ruling that eliminated the Republican from the elections.