The efforts of Trump’s opponents to prevent him from participating in the 2024 elections

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News Agency, following the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the ballots in the state of Maine by order of the state’s highest election official, his opponents They hope to prevent him from participating in the 2024 elections.

“Shena Bellows, Secretary of Internal Affairs of the state of “Maine” and the highest election official of this state, announced on Friday morning that “Donald Trump, the former president America cannot participate in the 2024 presidential primaries in this state.

The senior state official of Maine made the request on behalf of a group of former state legislators who wanted to deprive Trump was disqualified from running for re-election under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Blues asked Trump not to participate in Maine’s March 5 primary.

The state of Maine in the northeast of America, like Colorado, has announced the basis of this decision is the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Congress and Trump’s connection with it.

The order issued by the Secretary of the Interior in the state of Maine has not yet reached the implementation stage and is undergoing legal procedures. The fate of this ruling will be determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, which means that unless the Supreme Court upholds this ruling, Trump’s name will be on the Maine ballot.

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two days before that The Supreme Court of the State of Michigan rejected a request to remove Trump’s name from the primary election of the Republican Party in this state.

This request from Four Michigan voters, based on the role of the former president of the United States in the events of January 6, 2021 and the attack on the Capitol, were brought forward, but the Michigan Supreme Court declared that this lawsuit could not be brought to court .

About two weeks ago, the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado Voted Former US President Donald Trump cannot participate in the state’s primary ballot for the 2024 election due to his role in the attack by his supporters on the Congress building on January 6, 2021.

This historic ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which is likely to be upheld by the US Supreme Court, makes Trump the first presidential candidate to invoke a constitutional provision that includes a person who participated in a riot. , cannot hold government or federal positions.

According to this verdict – which was approved by 4 votes and 3 votes against were approved – according to the provisions of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Donald Trump’s name cannot be on the ballot due to his role in the January 6, 2021 riot, and he is “authorized to have federal responsibilities” by citing this law. has lost.

A lower court had previously ruled that Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, when his supporters attacked the Congress building, are considered riots, but this court refused to disqualify him by arguing that paragraph 3 does not include presidents .

Of course, this verdict is not yet final and Donald Trump has referred the case to the US Supreme Court. The final ruling of this court is not yet known, but most of the judges of this court are currently conservative, and three of them are appointed by Trump himself. Some of the judges of this court have long been critics of the granting of powers. not included in the law have been to the courts.

Of the 270 electoral votes that a candidate must win to win the election, Colorado has 9 electoral votes. In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won in this state with a margin of 13% over Trump.

However, the issue is dangerous for Trump because other states whose votes Trump needs to win, they may use the state of Colorado as their model to oust him. Judges in other states will be closely watching the outcome of the Colorado case against Trump.

Voters and human rights groups have so far tried in more than 12 states remove Trump’s name from the election ballots, but at least 7 of these complaints have not been successful due to various reasons.

Courts in Michigan, New Hampshire and Florida filed similar lawsuits against Trump have been rejected due to regulatory and jurisdictional reasons, and in some cases the courts have said that the unilateral disqualification of candidates is not within their jurisdiction.

The state of Oregon is also one of There are states that are investigating this issue. In the next few days, the Oregon Supreme Court will consider the case disqualifying Trump from participating in the state’s primary ballot.

Trump and his allies have strongly criticized these disqualification orders, calling it an undemocratic act and a conspiracy by his political rivals to keep him away from the election. They read.

His lawyers stated that only Congress can implement Section 3 of this article of the Constitution and the former president is not the subject of this disqualification. They emphasized that on January 6, 2021, Trump used the right to freedom of speech in the First Amendment of the Constitution and he It has nothing to do with the right-wing extremists who played an important role in this attack.

Trump’s opponents hope that Trump will win by disqualifying him in states that there is always a close competition between the candidates of the two parties, to block.

Earlier, an appeals court in the United States ruled that Donald Trump should face a lawsuit for his role in the attack by his supporters on the Congress building on January 6, 2021, and in This case does not enjoy political and legal immunity.

While rejecting Trump’s claim that he has political immunity, the court upheld Trump when he asked his supporters He has used his personal power as a presidential candidate to go to Congress on the day of the riot. US presidents are immune from lawsuits only for official actions.

Judge Tanya Chatkan stated that there is no basis for the issue that the presidents of the United States then They cannot face criminal charges after leaving the White House.

He wrote in this ruling: The United States has only one executive president at a time and immunity for any The president exists as long as he is in power and this position is not delegated to pass through times of crisis and danger.

Currently, Donald Trump is the leading Republican candidate. He faces numerous criminal charges: attempting to overturn the 2020 election results and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents at his private Florida villa after leaving the White House, paying hush money to an immoral movie actor, and trying to change the election results in the state of Georgia. He is also involved in fraud and financial charges. In addition, the former US president is facing a case of paying damages to a writer who accused him of sexual assault. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in these cases and has not yet been found guilty in any of these cases.

But Donald Trump raised these accusations only He knows that it is politically motivated and with the aim of removing him from the 2024 election race, despite the fact that according to the results of the latest polls, Trump is still the leading candidate of the Republicans for the 2024 election. He claims that raising these accusations only made him lead in the polls.

The US presidential election will be held in November 2024. Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls.