Maine's top court allows Trump to remain on ballot for now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

29% : In a per curiam opinion released Wednesday, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected a request from the Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and three others to have Trump removed from the ballot.
29% : "In late December, Bellows, a Democrat, issued a decision concluding that Trump couldn't be on the Republican Primary ballot, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
24% : They claimed that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits people from holding public office who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
24% : "Five days after Bellows' decision, Trump appealed, with a lower court judge putting a stay on the legal proceedings pending a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Donald Trump v. Norma Anderson, which centers on if Colorado could ban Trump from the ballot.
21% : Last year, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Trump was ineligible to be on the state ballot, citing the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.

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