In the dispute over Donald Trump’s participation in the Republican primary in Maine, there will be no decision in the US state before an expected Supreme Court ruling in a similar case.
This emerged from court documents. The Supreme Court will soon take up the question of whether the ex-president can be removed from the ballot for the party’s primary election for the presidential candidacy in the state of Colorado. A hearing is scheduled for February 8th.
Fall in Colorado
At the end of December, Colorado initially excluded Trump from the Republican primary. Maine followed shortly after. Trump’s lawyers appealed both decisions. In both states, the decisions have been suspended for the time being until the appeal procedure has been finally clarified.
The case in Colorado went all the way to the highest court in the United States. The ruling by the top judges is likely to set the tone for how Trump’s participation in the Republican primaries will be handled in other states.
More lawsuits
Trump opponents are claiming in lawsuits across the country that the ex-president lost his right to run for president again because of his role in the attack on the US Capitol. His supporters violently stormed the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.
Congress met there to formally confirm Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Trump had previously incited his supporters during a speech by claiming that the election victory had been stolen from him through massive fraud. As a result of the riots, five people died.
