The secretary of state of Maine has decided that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to look on that state’s poll, discovering that he’s disqualified beneath the 14th Modification‘s revolt clause.
Shenna Bellows wrote that Trump “used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 election and the peaceable switch of energy.”
The choice follows a Colorado Supreme Courtroom ruling that Trump is ineligible to carry workplace. However state Republicans submitting an attraction to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom on Thursday, his identify will nonetheless seem on the poll until the excessive court docket justices flip the case down or aspect with the state court docket.
The clause within the 14th Modification holds that those that have taken an oath must be barred from workplace in the event that they “engaged in revolt or riot towards the identical, or given assist or consolation to the enemies thereof.”
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