Trump appeals Maine decision barring him from primary ballot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The group of six Colorado voters who are seeking to bar Trump from the primary ballot also urged the Supreme Court to step in on Tuesday and decide whether he is constitutionally eligible for the presidency.
44% : The court halted its decision until Jan. 4 to allow Trump or the Colorado Republican Party to seek review from the U.S. Supreme Court.
40% : Bellows, a Democrat, halted the effect of her ruling to allow Trump to seek the state superior court's review.
40% : In Colorado, a 4-3 majority of the state's supreme court found that Trump should be kept off the primary ballot there because of his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
40% : Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Trump will be included on the GOP primary ballot unless the justices decline to hear the case or uphold the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling.
24% : Trump also said he was denied due process because he was not given adequate time and opportunity to put forth a defense, and said Bellows lacked statutory authority to hear the challenges to his candidacy under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
22% : In her 34-page decision, the secretary of state said the record established that Trump inflamed his supporters by making false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
20% : Bellows is the only top election official to unilaterally find that Trump is disqualified from holding public office under Section 3.
18% : In his 11-page complaint, filed in Maine Superior Court in Kennebec County, Trump argued that Bellows was "biased" and should have recused herself from considering the challenges to the former president's eligibility for office brought by two groups of voters.

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