On January 17, a Maine Superior Court remanded the question of whether former President Donald Trump should be on the Maine Republican presidential primary back to the Secretary of State. The Court says the Secretary of State should await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Colorado case before issuing a new ruling. Trump v Bellows, Kennebec Superior Court, ap-24-01.
In the meantime, Trump is on the Maine Republican presidential primary ballot. Here is the 17-page ruling.
On January 17, the Colorado Republican State Central Committee filed its brief in Trump v Anderson, 23-719, the case over whether former President Donald Trump should be on the Republican presidential primary ballot in Colorado. See it here.
Although the brief discusses virtually all the issues in the case, it leads with the argument that Section 3 does not apply to president.
Here is the article from Politico.
The seventh paragraph of this article reads: “I don’t know if in the coming years people will be looking at the United States as a model for democracy,” a second Arab diplomat warned.
Why would people around the world look to the US as a model of democracy in the first place?
As Richard Winger stated in his 2016 reason.com interview: “A multiparty system is normal. You only have a two party system if there is repression. It’s not natural.”
And then you have the overly stringent ballot access laws, which at least candidates in Canada and the United Kingdom, which also don’t have proportional representation, don’t have to face.
The name change law that is being selectively enforced in Ohio has not been included in official candidate instruction documents.
On January 16, the Connecticut Attorney General ruled that the State Constitution, which requires election by “plurality”, does not permit the legislature, or local governments, to authorize Ranked Choice Voting. However, the Opinion says it is a close question. The Opinion notes that the Maine and Alaska Supreme Courts have considered this question for their states, and they came to opposite conclusions. Here is the Connecticut Opinion. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
