Maine barred Donald Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, making it the second state in the country to block the former president from running again under a part of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office.

The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) is sure to be appealed. The Colorado Supreme Court last week found Trump could not appear on the ballot in that state, and the Colorado Republican Party has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. The nation’s high court could resolve for all states whether Trump can run again.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    1181·
    11 months ago

    arguing that Trump is not eligible to be on the ballot because he claims to have won the 2020 election, which would have been his second term. The 22nd Amendment states that no person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice.

    Oh thats clever!

    “The 14th Amendment Constitution says you, an insurrectionist, cannot be on the ballot”

    Trump: “I’m not an insurrectionist! I was defending my election to office in 2020!”

    "Ah, okay then so you’re admitting that you’re trying to run for a 3rd term in violation of the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution

    • frezik
      653·
      11 months ago

      Clever, but no. He didn’t get a second term, and his whining in a corner doesn’t change that.

        • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world
          25·
          11 months ago

          They don’t care if he admits it or if it’s true. They only care about what he instructs them to care about. Please, we must all start to understand this otherwise it’s us living in an illusion.

          • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
            1129·
            11 months ago

            “They” are human beings. “They” are our family and neighbors. “They” are people who are being exploited for political gain. You’d do well to keep that in mind.

            • JonEFive
              17·
              11 months ago

              I don’t think the idea was to dehumanize, but rather to be more aware of the shared psychosis so many people are living in.

              “They” claim that Trump won the election without any regard to facts and evidence. Imagining that “they” will suddenly change their mind if they get just one more piece of factual information is foolish considering everything we’ve seen so far. We must find another way to get through to “them”.

            • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world
              14·
              11 months ago

              Just because I’m using a plural pronoun I’m not dehumanising anyone. Please read what is actually written and keep your desire to scold people at home.

              • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
                1·
                10 months ago

                Oh, just noticed this reply.

                In the first example “They” is a generalization, in the second is a reference to a specific set of people.

            • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
              9·
              11 months ago

              They have been behaving like members of a cult and have alienated family members, relatives and friends with their MAGA-narrative filled of hate and xenophobia.

            • Iamdanno@lemmy.world
              21·
              11 months ago

              “They” are also objectively stupid. And they are willing, enthusiastic, participants in their “exploitation”.

            • Hobbes@startrek.website
              511·
              11 months ago

              They most certainly are not. They have no compassion, no intelligence, no critical thinking, no love, and no respect for human life.

              They are mammals. Even primates. I’ll give you that. But they are sub-human.

              They have caused unimaginable pain and suffering and they enjoy it all and run on hatred.

              • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world
                112·
                11 months ago

                All of the things you listed are attributes humans have. There is no such thing as sub-humans, you’re thinking of regular humans.

                Trump supporters are easily fooled idiots but they are fellow humans nonetheless. Thinking of a group of people as “sub-humans” oppens the door to treating that group as inferior and not worthy of respect which leads to fascist tendencies. Please be aware of what your words mean.

                • Hobbes@startrek.website
                  38·
                  11 months ago

                  I’m aware. That group is inferior and not worthy of respect. They are a cancer to our society and we should be making huge efforts to cure them.

                  • jas0n@lemmy.world
                    3·
                    11 months ago

                    Inferior is extreme though. I would say gullible idiots for the Qult crowd, but most people are just wholey uninformed. Uninformed voters are more likely to become single issue voters (IMO the worst kind). I don’t know if you noticed, but the news cycle is exhausting. So, I could just ignore it and choose the side that wants to control women’s bodies because I’m superstitious. Wouldn’t even know democracy was under any threat at all. Of course, some are informed, but are so concerned with controlling women’s bodies that they wouldn’t mind totalitarianism.

                    Another often overlooked factor is people treating politics as another team sport. Some people will just never vote for the other side. And again, if they are uninformed, there will never be anything to change their mind.

                    I think a better way to say it, would be respect. I might hold more respect for someone who can critical think there way through the bs, but if they can’t I wouldn’t say they are inferior.

                  • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world
                    12·
                    11 months ago

                    They are not inferior, they are badly educated and thus easily blinded. It’s not inherent, it’s circumstantial that they’re idiots.