Former US President Donald Trump’s troubles are showing no signs of slowing down.
He has suffered a second shock within a month. After the American state of Colorado, now the state of Maine has also declared him ineligible for the 2024 presidential elections.
Maine’s top elections official on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot for next year’s presidential election.
Due to Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, he has been disqualified from contesting elections in other states as well.
Earlier, on the 19th of this month, the Supreme Court of Colorado had disqualified Trump.
Maine’s Secretary of State Shenae Bellows, a Democrat, concluded that Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, made false claims about fraud in the 2020 presidential election on January 6, Incited the 2021 insurrection and urged his supporters to march on Capitol Hill to prevent newly elected lawmakers from certifying the votes.
This action against Trump has been taken under the rebellion clause of the US Constitution. “The United States Constitution does not tolerate an attack on the foundation of our government,” Bellows wrote in his 34-page decision.
The decision comes after a group of former lawmakers from Maine demanded that Trump be disqualified as per the provisions of the Insurrection Clause of the US Constitution.
This section of the US Constitution prohibits anyone who has been involved in any form of rebellion from taking the oath of constitutional office.
It is believed that Trump can now file an appeal against this decision in the State Supreme Court.