Maine, northeast of USA, This Thursday it became the second state to expel the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021), pre-candidate for the 2024 elections, of the Republican primaries in that state, for his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In a document shared by several American media outlets, the Secretary of State of Maine, Shenna Bellows, announced the decision, claiming that Trump cannot participate in the elections for having participated in an “insurrection.”
Bellows’ decision comes a week after the Colorado State Supreme Court, in a historic move, ruled in favor of expelling the Republican from his party’s primary.
The Maine Secretary of State, like the Colorado Supreme Court, appealed to the Amendment 14 of the Constitution, which prohibits people who have participated in an insurrection from holding elected office.
That amendment was approved in 1868, after the civil war in the United States, to prevent people associated with the southern rebels of the Confederacy from coming to power.