US presidential election: Donald Trump appeals a decision banning him from running.
Donald Trump appealed Tuesday a decision that bars him from running in the next presidential election in the state of Maine because of his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The former US president claims that he had not incited any riot and that he was not a government official as stipulated in the constitutional amendment cited by the prosecution.
Democrat Shenna Bellows became the first secretary of state in history to bar an ex-president under the rarely used Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This provision prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding official office.