Trump’s lawyers did « not meaningfully dispute » his role in the attack, law professor says.
Arguments criticizing the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine secretary of state’s rulings that Donald Trump be removed from the 2024 presidential primary ballot are « deeply flawed, » a legal scholar says. Following the former president’s Tuesday lawsuit in Maine requesting Secretary of State Shenna Bellow’s ruling be vacated and his name restored to the ballot, University of Baltimore Law Professor Kim Wehle argued that commentators’ declarations that both rulings are anti-democratic lack merit.
Voters don’t have a « ‘democratic’ right to pick whomever they want for president under our system of laws, » Wehle wrote in The Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative news site, pointing to the Constitution’s age and residency requirements for any potential candidate and individual states’ laws governing ballot eligibility.
