{"id":2139345,"date":"2024-01-03T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-appeals-ruling-to-keep-him-off-maine-ballot-by-dem-who-was-disappointed-he-wasnt-impeached\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:49:02","slug":"trump-appeals-ruling-to-keep-him-off-maine-ballot-by-dem-who-was-disappointed-he-wasnt-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-appeals-ruling-to-keep-him-off-maine-ballot-by-dem-who-was-disappointed-he-wasnt-impeached\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appeals ruling to stay on Maine ballot after Democrat expresses disappointment over failed impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-appeals-ruling-to-keep-him-off-maine-ballot-by-dem-who-was-disappointed-he-wasnt-impeached%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2139345&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Trump Appeals \u200bDecision to Remove Him from Maine&#8217;s 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump filed an appeal challenging the decision\u200d by Maine&#8217;s leading election official to remove him \u2063from the state&#8217;s \u20642024 presidential primary ballot. The complaint argues that the official, Maine Secretary of State Shenna\u2063 Bellows, acted arbitrarily \u200cand violated\u2064 the Constitution&#8217;s Elector&#8217;s Clause.<\/p>\n<p>Bellows based her decision on a twisted\u200b legal theory \u2062regarding\u200b the 14th Amendment, \u2064claiming that Trump&#8217;s actions during the events of\u2064 January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol disqualified him from appearing on the\u200c ballot. However, Trump&#8217;s lawyers argue that \u2062Bellows had no legal authority to consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dershowitz-chauvin-conviction-should-be-reversed-on-appeal-maxine-waters-used-kkk-playbook-to-intimidate-jury\/\" title=\"Dershowitz: Chauvin Conviction \u2018Should Be Reversed On Appeal,\u2019 Maxine Waters Used KKK \u2018Playbook\u2019 To Intimidate Jury\">federal constitutional issues<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-derek-chauvin-appealing-murder-conviction-in-george-floyd-case\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Derek Chauvin Appealing Murder Conviction In George Floyd Case\">made multiple errors<\/a>\u2063 of law.<\/p>\n<p>In their appeal, \u200cTrump&#8217;s legal team asserts that \u2064Bellows should have recused herself from the\u2062 matter due to \u2063her bias against the former president, as demonstrated by her prior statements \u2063prejudging the issue. They highlight examples\u200b of Bellows practically proclaiming Trump guilty of insurrection in the years leading up to her decision.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2063decision by Bellows \u2063is part of a series of attempts by Democrats to unilaterally deny Americans the \u2062ability to vote for their preferred candidate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-in-tight-races-play-catch-up-after-expensive-midterm-campaigns\/\" title=\"House Democrats in tight races play catch-up after expensive midterm campaigns\">upcoming 2024 election cycle<\/a>.\u200c Similar efforts in Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Virginia, and Arizona \u2062have failed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist \u200band a graduate of\u200d the University of Mary\u2063 Washington. Follow him \u200con Twitter @ShawnFleetwood.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does Donald \u2062Trump&#8217;s\u200d legal\u200c team argue that \u2062Bellows violated the Constitution&#8217;s Elector&#8217;s Clause?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Former President Donald Trump has filed an appeal challenging \u200bthe decision \u200bby\u200c Maine&#8217;s\u2063 leading\u200b election official to \u2064remove him from the state&#8217;s 2024 presidential primary ballot. The \u2064appeal argues that \u200bMaine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows acted arbitrarily and violated the Constitution&#8217;s\u2062 Elector&#8217;s Clause.<\/p>\n<p>Bellows based her decision on a legal theory regarding\u2063 the 14th \u2062Amendment, claiming\u2063 that Trump&#8217;s actions during the events of January 6, 2021,\u2064 at the U.S. Capitol \u200bdisqualified \u2064him from appearing on the ballot. \u2062However, Trump&#8217;s lawyers argue that \u200dBellows had\u2064 no legal authority\u2064 to consider federal constitutional\u2062 issues and made multiple errors of law.<\/p>\n<p>In the appeal, Trump&#8217;s legal team asserts that Bellows should have recused herself from the matter due to her bias against \u200cthe former president,\u2063 as demonstrated by her prior statements \u200cprejudging\u2064 the issue. They provide examples of \u200bBellows practically proclaiming Trump guilty\u200d of insurrection in the years leading up \u2062to \u2062her decision.<\/p>\n<p>This decision by Bellows is seen as part of a series of attempts by Democrats to unilaterally deny Americans the ability to vote for\u200b their preferred candidate in the upcoming 2024 election cycle.\u200d Similar efforts in Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Virginia, and Arizona\u200c have all \u2064failed.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood, a\u200c staff \u2063writer for \u200bThe Federalist\u200d and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington, wrote this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump has lodged an appeal against Maine&#8217;s election official&#8217;s decision to exclude him from the 2024 presidential primary ballot. The complaint, filed in Kennebec County Superior Court, challenges the arbitrary declaration made by Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on December 28, accusing Trump of &#8220;engaging in insurrection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2139346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}