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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.
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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.
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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.
On Dec. 15, 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows held a hearing on challenges to Donald Trump’s eligibility for the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot. The dispute centered on whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from appearing on the ballot. Bellows did not issue her disqualification decision until Dec. 28, after the hearing process concluded.
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