WASHINGTON – President Biden said Tuesday he is “fine” with former President Donald Trump appearing on state presidential ballots in November after Colorado and Maine blocked him – triggering a high-stakes Supreme Court battle set for next week.
“As far as I’m concerned, that’s fine,” Biden, 81, told reporters as he left the White House for a fundraising trip to South Florida.
Trump, 77, led Biden in the most recent national and state elections, and Republicans have denounced efforts to remove him from the ballot as anti-democratic.
The former president was removed from the ballot by officials citing the 14th Amendment law against officeholders who have “engaged in rebellion or insurrection,” enacted after the Civil War.
In December, the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified Trump from the March 5 Republican primary after ruling 4-3 that the 45th president had violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the Rebellion Clause.
A few days later, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows also ordered that Trump’s name be removed from the ballot, although the decision was delayed by the court before the Supreme Court arguments set for February 8.
President Biden said Tuesday that he is “fine” with former President Donald Trump appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in November. AP
Officials in other states have rejected similar efforts, with Illinois’ eight-member election board voting unanimously on Tuesday to dismiss a complaint seeking to remove the former president from the state’s ballot, on the grounds that it lacked the authority to determine whether Trump was involved in insurgency. during the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.
The House of Representatives impeached Trump for “inciting insurrection” following the Capitol riots, in which thousands of the former president’s supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of Biden’s victory in the Electoral College.
The Senate voted to acquit Trump after he left office in a 57-43 vote that fell short of the two-thirds threshold to convict him.
Trump has secured the Republican presidential nomination after victories in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries and a large lead in the upcoming contests. Getty Images
Some Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), blamed Trump for the riots but said they believed only sitting officeholders could face Senate hearings.
Trump faces federal criminal charges for trying to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election, as well as state charges in Georgia, but the case does not specifically charge him with sedition.
Trump has secured the Republican presidential nomination after victories in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries and a large lead in the upcoming contests.
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