WASHINGTON – President Biden said Tuesday he has “no problem” with former President Donald Trump appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in November, after Colorado and Maine barred him from running for president. This has sparked a high-stakes Supreme Court case scheduled for next week.
“As far as I’m concerned, that’s fine,” Biden, 81, told reporters as he left the White House for a fundraiser in South Florida.
Trump, 77, leads Biden in recent presidential election Nationwide Republicans have denounced efforts to remove him from the ballot as anti-democratic.
The former president was removed from the ballot by officials, citing a post-Civil War 14th Amendment ban on officials “taking part in insurrection or insurrection.”
In December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the 45th president violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the Insurrection Clause. President Trump was disqualified from the state’s Republican primary.
Days later, Maine Secretary of State Shena Bellows also ordered Trump’s name removed from ballots, but her decision is on hold in court ahead of Supreme Court arguments scheduled for February 8. It was done.
The Illinois State Board of Elections was also scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday in the state to consider removing Trump.
On January 6, 2021, the House of Representatives impeached Trump on charges of “incitement of insurrection” after thousands of former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the electoral college certification of Biden’s victory. did.
After Trump left office, the Senate voted 57-43 to acquit Trump, falling short of the two-thirds threshold for conviction.
Some Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have blamed Trump for the riot, but only sitting members can stand trial in the Senate. He said he believed that.
Trump faces federal criminal charges for trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat, as well as state charges in Georgia, which specifically charge him with sedition. It’s not like I’m being told.
Trump won early voting in Iowa and New Hampshire, giving him a huge lead in the upcoming elections and almost guaranteeing him the Republican presidential nomination.
