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Former GOP presidential candidate Larry Elder blasted rulings removing former President Trump from state primary ballots Thursday, predicting the precedent will “set the country on fire.” Elder, a conservative radio host who had a short-lived 2024 presidential campaign, predicted that Thursday’s decision in Maine and last week’s in Colorado to bar Trump from the respective…
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Maine joins Colorado which earlier this month also disqualified Trump from its Republican primary.The US state of Maine on Thursday blocked former president Donald Trump from its Republican presidential primary after the top election official ruled him ineligible due to involvement in the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol.Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows…
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Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) criticized the decision by the Maine secretary of state to bar former President Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, saying he should only be left off if convicted of a crime. The moderate Democrat said he believes Trump is responsible for the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, but that he should still…
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Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday he was not surprised Maine’s secretary of state ruled that former President Trump cannot appear on the primary ballot in 2024. In an interview on Fox News with Jason Chaffetz, Comer characterized the ruling as a political one and said he expects other…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA federal appeals court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to halt proceedings in the upcoming E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.In a court filing last week, Trump’s attorneys asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to delay the case for 90…
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Attorneys of the Year Stefanie Lindquist, Arizona State University //December 27, 2023// Here why courts may reject Trump’s immunity claimsFormer President Donald Trump holds up his fist at a rally in Summerville, South Carolina, on Sept. 25, 2023. (AP file photo) Stefanie Lindquist, Arizona State University //December 27, 2023// Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The…
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Elections Activists and voters have filed numerous lawsuits around the country claiming the former president is barred from office under the “insurrection clause.” The decision follows a similar ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court last week. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images By Zach Montellaro 12/28/2023 06:57 PM EST Link CopiedMaine’s top election official ejected…
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Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in election and policy coverage.Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco came out with a warning that Trump and Republican attacks against Justice Department personnel have led to…
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Help keep Salon independentDonald Trump has newfound beef with Chris Columbus, the director whose 1992 Christmas classic “Home Alone 2” includes a brief cameo of the former president.Trump specifically took offense to a 2020 Business Insider interview, in which Columbus said he was allowed to shoot in the lobby of The Plaza Hotel (which Trump…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted the decision to keep former President Trump off the ballot in Maine in 2024 while urging Republicans to focus more on Democrats’ shortcomings rather than on Trump’s legal issues. “The idea that one bureaucrat in an executive position can simply unilaterally disqualify someone from office, that turns on its head…
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Give by 12/31, so we can continue to deliver intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy journalism. Jill Colvin, Associated Press Jill Colvin, Associated Press Leave your feedbackNEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has centered his unlikely rise from reality television star to onetime — and potentially future — president on the idea that he’s wiser than Washington’s bumbling political class,…
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Former President Trump’s campaign said it will appeal the Maine secretary of state’s Thursday decision to bar him from the state’s primary ballot. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) determined Thursday that Trump’s actions surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riots violated the 14th Amendment’s clause barring those who “assist insurrection” from holding office. The Trump…
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Trump legal news brief: Colorado GOP asks U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether Trump can be kicked off ballots  Yahoo Newssource

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inEx-US president claims his cameo helped ‘make the movie a success’ in Truth Social post Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump has claimed the director of…
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Watch CBS News By Rick Sallinger October 24, 2023 / 6:26 PM MDT / CBS Colorado A former lawyer for former President Donald Trump with deep ties to Colorado pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge related to efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.Jenna Ellis attended Colorado State University, worked in the…
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Earlier this month, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled Trump was ineligible for the presidency and disqualified him from the state’s primary ballot.

Maine’s secretary of state said Thursday that former President Trump was ineligible to be on the state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment, becoming the second state to take such action. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said she had concluded that Trump “over the course of several months and culminating on January…
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his decision to remain in the 2024 presidential contest, arguing in a new ad that he is the only Republican candidate taking on former President Donald Trump.“He’ll burn America to the ground to help himself,” Christie said, in a direct address to the camera. “Every Republican leader says…
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot.The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot.The state’s high court said in an order that the application by…
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Watch CBS News December 27, 2023 / 7:01 PM EST / CBS Detroit (CNN) – Former president Donald Trump is getting some pushback over his online rant on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.Trump unleashed several posts online, largely over his legal troubles. He included a wish for his political opponents to quote “rot in hell.”Democratic Representative Debbie…
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Dec. 28 (UPI) — Former President Donald Trump is demanding that Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows recuse herself from ruling on his eligibility to be on the state’s primary ballot, citing the Democrat’s public statements concerning the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol. Challenges to Trump’s application to be on Maine’s…
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legal The court turned away an appeal from voters who argue that Trump should be barred from the ballot because of his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first court in the country to declare Donald Trump ineligible to run. | Evan Vucci/AP By James Romoser, Zach…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeBy Emma BarnettMANCHESTER, N.H. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign is spending more than $1 million on a new ad in New Hampshire painting himself as the only Republican candidate willing to criticize former President Donald Trump. “I’m the only one saying Donald…
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