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By December 29, Trump’s campaign had turned a court defeat into a headline problem that could not be spun away. The state ruling was paused, the appeals were coming fast, and the Supreme Court would get the final word. But for one ugly stretch, Trump’s closing argument to voters was not strength — it was whether the Constitution itself says he is not allowed to do the job again.
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The Colorado Supreme Court said on Dec. 19, 2023, that Donald Trump is disqualified from the state’s presidential primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but it stayed enforcement of the ruling until Jan. 4, 2024, unless the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in first.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ruled on Dec. 28, 2023, that Donald Trump could not appear on the state’s Republican primary ballot, one week after Colorado’s Supreme Court reached a similar conclusion. Both rulings were immediately caught up in appeals, but together they widened a fight over whether Trump’s conduct around Jan. 6 bars him from the ballot.