Maine Senator Comes Out Against State Removing Trump From Ballot

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, has come out against the state booting former President Donald Trump from its 2024 ballot. “Under the established Constitutional process, the Senate was called upon to determine this precise question in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in January, 2021. While I voted with a bipartisan majority to convict, the required two-thirds of the Senate did not do so,” he said in a Dec. 29 statement posted on X. The impeachment followed the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol as Congress was certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. “Although I respect the Secretary of State’s careful process—which she was specifically required to undertake under Maine law—absent a final judicial determination of a violation of the 14th Amendment’s disqualification clause, I believe the decision as to whether or not Mr. Trump should again be considered for the presidency should rest with the people as expressed in free and fair elections. This is the ultimate check within our Constitutional system,” continued Mr. King....