Dr. Shirley Weber’s office did not immediately issue a comment on her decision to include Trump after releasing the list of certified candidates on Thursday night.
She did not indicate if she would fulfill Kounalakis’s request and said her decision would be guided by her office’s “commitment to and respect for the rule of law.”
“Removing a candidate from the ballot under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not something my office takes lightly and is not as simple as the requirement that a person be at least 35 years old to be president,” Weber wrote.
The calls to strike the former president from the state’s ballot came after Colorado’s Supreme Court did the same thing, saying he violated the “insurrection clause,” a Civil War-era provision of the U.S. Constitution.
“The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and Section 336 requires me to act in response,” Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, wrote in her decision.
“Given the compressed timeframe, the novel constitutional questions involved, the importance of this case, and impending ballot preparation deadlines, I will suspend the effect of my decision until the Superior Court rules on any appeal, or the time to appeal …has expired,” Bellows added.
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Decent job by the bot but what’s missing is Bellows is Maine’s SoS who decided to remove Trump from that state’s primary ballot, pending a decision by the Maine Superior Court.
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Dr. Shirley Weber’s office did not immediately issue a comment on her decision to include Trump after releasing the list of certified candidates on Thursday night.
She did not indicate if she would fulfill Kounalakis’s request and said her decision would be guided by her office’s “commitment to and respect for the rule of law.”
“Removing a candidate from the ballot under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not something my office takes lightly and is not as simple as the requirement that a person be at least 35 years old to be president,” Weber wrote.
The calls to strike the former president from the state’s ballot came after Colorado’s Supreme Court did the same thing, saying he violated the “insurrection clause,” a Civil War-era provision of the U.S. Constitution.
“The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and Section 336 requires me to act in response,” Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, wrote in her decision.
“Given the compressed timeframe, the novel constitutional questions involved, the importance of this case, and impending ballot preparation deadlines, I will suspend the effect of my decision until the Superior Court rules on any appeal, or the time to appeal …has expired,” Bellows added.
The original article contains 282 words, the summary contains 205 words. Saved 27%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Decent job by the bot but what’s missing is Bellows is Maine’s SoS who decided to remove Trump from that state’s primary ballot, pending a decision by the Maine Superior Court.