Maine's highest court has declined to take up an appeal of a ruling over a move to take former President Donald Trump's name off the state's GOP primary ballot.
In a decision issued Wednesday, the Supreme Judicial Court dismissed an appeal by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, asking justices to overturn a lower court ruling delaying a decision on the ballot challenge.
Bellows, a Democrat, issued a ruling earlier this month that pulled Trump's name from the ballot.
Trump's lawyers challenged the ruling, and last week, Kennebec County Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy issued a stay on the Maine secretary of state's decision to disqualify Trump from the primary ballot.
Trump's campaign issued a statement praising the Maine high court's decision not to take up the appeal, saying it dealt a "Devastating blow to crooked Joe's ballot hoax." "This disenfranchisement effort, lead by Crooked Joe's Democrat acolyte and desperate partisan Secretary of State, was soundly rejected by Maine's Supreme Court in a dismissal of the Secretary's appeal of a prior order, which kept President Trump on the ballot," Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Cheung said Trump is "Confident that the United States Supreme Court will ultimately be fair and eliminate these meritless, sham '14th Amendment' cases once and for all." Similar ballot battles are playing out in other states, where activists have asked courts and election officials to remove Trump from the ballot over his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
In Massachusetts, a group of activists have asked the Supreme Judicial Court to overturn a ruling by the state's Ballot Law Commission rejecting a challenge from a group of voters seeking to keep Trump off the state's March 5 primary ballot.
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