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Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump filed an attraction on Tuesday in search of to overturn the ruling final week by Shenna Bellows, Maine’s secretary of state, to bar him from showing on the state’s Republican major poll.
Ms. Bellows, a Democrat, “was a biased determination maker who ought to have recused herself and in any other case failed to supply lawful due course of,” legal professionals for Mr. Trump wrote within the 11-page attraction filed in Maine Superior Court. They additional argued that she had “no authorized authority to think about the federal constitutional points introduced by the challengers.”
Ms. Bellows “made a number of errors of regulation and acted in an arbitrary and capricious method,” the legal professionals wrote. They demanded that the court docket vacate the secretary’s determination, which they described as “the product of a course of contaminated by bias.”
Maine grew to become the second state to exclude Mr. Trump from the first poll on Dec. 28, when Ms. Bellows found him ineligible under the third section of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits individuals who have engaged in rebel from holding workplace. Her determination adopted an identical landmark discovering in Colorado, the place the state’s supreme court docket ruled on Dec. 19 that he couldn’t seem on the poll there.
