Trump’s appeal against the removal of his name from the Maine election

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News, Donald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 election, filed a petition against his disqualification from participating Filed an appeal in the Maine primary election for his role in the January 6, 2021 riot.

In this petition, he asked the state Supreme Court to overturn the decision so that he can run in the state’s primary election on March 5. participate.

“Sheena Bellows, the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the state of “Maine” and the highest election official of the state, announced last week that “Donald Trump”, the former president of the United States, will not be able to run in the 2024 presidential primaries in this state. State participate.

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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Trump’s lawyers stated in this appeal that this decision is the product of a process It is tainted with bias and lacks the inclusiveness of a legal process. Trump’s legal team acknowledged that he participated in the January 6 riots, but Blues does not have the necessary authority to prevent him from appearing in the primary elections and remove his name from the ballot.

Blues then requested that a group of former lawmakers The state of Maine sent a petition to the Blues and demanded that Trump be disqualified from participating in the state’s elections.

Blues In his statement to disqualify Trump, he wrote: I have confidence in my decision and the implementation of the law.

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 was made by four voters of the state of Michigan, 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 building, but the Michigan Supreme Court announced that this petition can be brought to court. No.

Previously The Supreme Court of the state of Colorado ruled that the former President of the United States Donald Trump because of his role in the attack His supporters at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, cannot participate in the state’s primary ballot for the 2024 election.

This historic ruling in the Colorado Supreme Court, which is likely to The US Supreme Court’s approval also comes, making Trump the first presidential candidate to invoke a constitutional provision that bars anyone who has participated in a rebellion from holding state or federal office.

According to this ruling – 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 .

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

Courts in Michigan, New Hampshire and Florida have dismissed similar lawsuits against Trump on procedural and jurisdictional grounds, and in some cases the courts have said that unilateral disqualification of candidates is within their jurisdiction. does not take.

The state of Oregon is also one of the states that is investigating this issue. In the next few days, the Supreme Court of Oregon is going to consider the case of disqualifying Trump from participating in the primary voting in this state.

Trump and his allies revoke these orders He criticized Al-Jahleh and called it an undemocratic act and a conspiracy by his political rivals to keep him away from the elections.

His lawyers in this They 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 that he had no connection with the right-wing extremists who played an important role in this attack.

Trump’s opponents hope to block Trump’s victory by disqualifying him in states where there is always a tight race between candidates of both parties.

Currently, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is facing multiple criminal charges: attempting to overturn the 2020 election results and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents at his Florida villa after leaving The White House, hush-hush payments to an immoral movie star, and an attempt to sway the Georgia election. 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 excluding him from the 2024 election, despite the fact that according to the results of the latest polls, Trump is still the leading candidate of the Republicans for the 2024 elections. 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.