A Maine court yesterday asked the authorities of this state to reconsider their decision to exclude Donald Trump from the Republican primaries, after taking into account the verdict that the US Supreme Court will issue on the electoral process in Colorado.

Justice Michaela Murphy ordered the state’s Interior Minister Sena Bellows to review the decision within 30 days of the federal High Court’s verdict. Murphy noted that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear an appeal of the Colorado primary “changes everything in terms of the order in which decisions should be made and by which court.”

Bellows ruled in December that Donald Trump, who is considered the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, cannot run for president under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution which bars those who have participated in “insurrection or rebellion » to hold public office.

On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters stormed the federal Capitol to block the ratification of Joe Biden’s victory in the November presidential election.

Maine and Colorado are so far the US states that have excluded Donald Trump from the electoral process, while he has appealed against the decisions. The lawyers of the Republican tycoon argue that Article 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution cannot be applied in the case of their client, since Donald Trump was still the president of the US on January 6, 2021 and did not participate in a “rebellion”.