Trump’s lawyers compare his possible disqualification with that of Machado in Venezuela

Former President of the United States donald trump (2017-2021) presented this Monday its last possible response brief before the Supreme Court studies on Thursday whether the state of Colorado It could keep him out of the polls in the electoral process before the November elections.

In the text, his lawyers compared his possible disqualification with that of the opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado in Venezuela because, according to them, the plaintiffs seek to impose “this same undemocratic measure”against Trump.

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“At a time when U.S threatens sanctions against the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela for excluding the main opposition presidential candidate from the vote“, highlighted the lawyers, who defined Trump as”the main candidate for the presidency of the United States”.

He American Supreme Court A hearing is scheduled for Thursday to determine whether the Amendment 14 of the Constitution disqualifies the former president from participating in the Colorado Republican Primary after being accused of leading a “insurrection” during what is known as ‘assault on the Capitol‘ in January 2021.

A group of voters in that state claim that their participation amounts to an insurrection, that the Constitution would prevent them from holding public office and that they should not appear as candidates at the polls.

On December 19 last year, in an unprecedented decision in the history of the United States, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not participate in the Republican primaries in that state due to his role in the aforementioned attack.

Later, on December 28, Maine became the second state to disqualify Trump. In this case, the decision was taken by the authority responsible for organizing elections in that constituency, the Secretary of State for Mainethe democrat Shenna Bellows.

The 14th Amendment was passed in 1868, after the civil war in the United States, with the aim of preventing the southern rebels of the Confederacy, who swore an oath to the Constitution and then betrayed it, from coming to power.

In the complex American political and electoral system, where states are responsible for organizing elections, even if they are presidential, each has its own rules, so similar demands can have a different result.

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This is where the Supreme Court becomes most important as a decision of the Supreme Court must be followed across the country.

Although the public hearing to study the case will be this Thursday, February 8, it is not yet known when the Supreme Court will make its decision or how far it will go.

Primaries in Colorado and Maine are scheduled for March 5.

Source: Elcomercio

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