Trump appeals to the United States Supreme Court his expulsion from the Colorado primaries

The former American president Donald Trump (2017-2021) He appealed this Wednesday the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to expel him from the Republican primaries in that state, the newspaper indicated. Washington Post.

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His legal team presented the appeal before the US Supreme Court a day after appealing a similar decision in Maine to Kennebec Superior Court.

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In both states it was considered that the former president and new electoral candidate cannot run for a second term in the White House by virtue of section 3 of the XIV Amendment of the Constitution, for having participated in an “insurrection.”

The Colorado Supreme Court's veto was announced on December 19. It was an unprecedented decision and related to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, which took place while the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden over Trump was being certified..

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Later, on December 28, Maine became the second state to disqualify Trump. In this case, the decision was made by the Secretary of State of Maine, Democrat Shenna Bellows, who is the authority in charge of organizing the elections in that district.

Trump's lawyers argued yesterday about Maine that Bellows' decision was “the product of a process infected by bias and a widespread lack of due process”as well as that “it is arbitrary, capricious” and that “it is not supported by substantial evidence in the record.”

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Section 3 of Amendment United States or has provided aid or facilities to enemies of the country.

The paragraph does not explicitly mention the position of president, but In the American federal system, each state is responsible for organizing the elections, including the presidential ones, and thus has the power to expel a candidate even if he or she has not been charged, reducing support in the general race..

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In both Maine and Colorado, the primaries will take place on March 5, a day known as Super Tuesday because more than a dozen Republican and Democratic states simultaneously hold primaries to choose which candidate will represent them in the presidential elections.

EFE