Steven Cheung, Mr Trump’s spokesman, mentioned that he would attraction towards the Maine resolution.
“The Maine secretary of state is a former ACLU legal professional, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has determined to intervene within the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden,” Mr Cheung mentioned.
“We’re witnessing, in real-time, the tried theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter.
“Democrats in blue states are recklessly and un-Constitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by making an attempt to summarily take away President Trump’s identify from the poll.
“Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”
Showdown within the Supreme Court docket
The landmark ruling in Colorado has been stayed till Jan 4 to permit time for Republicans to attraction to the nation’s Supreme Court docket.
The case hinges on the 14th Modification, which was handed in 1868, three years after the top of the Civil Conflict.
Part three of the modification barred anybody engaged in rebel from holding workplace.
It was meant to maintain former Confederates out of workplace and had been barely talked about for many years till August when the potential for utilizing the clause was raised by two authorized students, William Baude of the College of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the College of St Thomas.
Each males are members of the Federalist Society, a conservative authorized group that helps a really strict interpretation of the US Structure.
In Maine on Thursday, Ms Bellows gained reward from a bunch of distinguished voters who had filed a petition which compelled her to contemplate the case.
Kimberly Rosen, a Republican, Thomas Saviello, an unbiased, and Ethan Strimling, a Democrat, mentioned in a joint assertion that Ms Bellows “confirmed nice braveness in her ruling”.
“We stay up for serving to her defend her considered and proper resolution in courtroom,” they mentioned. “No elected official is above the regulation or our structure, and immediately’s ruling reaffirms this most vital of American rules.”