On Thursday, Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State ruled that former President Donald Trump should not be eligible to hold office and is disqualified from adding his name to the state’s primary ballot.
Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State ruled that Trump should not be eligible to hold office and is disqualified from adding his name to the state’s primary ballot, accusing him of engaging in insurrection. Michigan, when faced with a similar appeal, decided to keep the former president on their primary election ballot.These cases will ultimately be a telltale sign of how much autonomy the states are supposed to have when it comes to “establishing the standards of national elections”, Robert Hockett, a Cornell University professor of law and public policy, told Sputnik’s Political Misfits.Section three of the 14th Amendment reads that no person shall hold a seat in office if—as a previous member of office who swore an oath to support the US Constitution—they engaged in insurrection. Despite the amount of evidence against Trump that suggests he engaged in insurrection over the course of the January 6 attack, he has not been convicted of a crime.
