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Steven Cheung, Mr Trump’s spokesman, said he would appeal against the Maine decision.
“The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden,’’ Mr Cheung said.
“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter.
“Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by attempting to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot.
“Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”
Showdown in the Supreme Court
The landmark ruling in Colorado has been stayed until Jan 4 to allow time for Republicans to appeal to the nation’s Supreme Court.
The case hinges on the 14th Amendment which was passed in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War.
Section three of the amendment barred anyone engaged in insurrection from holding office.
It was intended to keep former Confederates out of office and had been barely mentioned for decades until August when the possibility of using the clause was raised by two legal scholars, William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St Thomas.
Both men are members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group which supports a very strict interpretation of the US Constitution.
In Maine on Thursday, Ms Bellows won praise from a group of prominent voters who had filed a petition which forced her to consider the case.
Republican Kimberly Rosen, independent Thomas Saviello and Democrat Ethan Strimling said in a joint statement that Ms Bellows “showed great courage in her ruling’’.
‘‘We look forward to helping her defend her judicious and correct decision in court,’’ they said. ‘‘No elected official is above the law or our constitution, and today’s ruling reaffirms this most important of American principles.’’
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