While most challenges to former President Donald Trump’s eligibility as a candidate under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment have taken place in courts, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is set this week to make a decision herself. Attorneys for President Trump on Wednesday sent a letter requesting that she disqualify herself from the issue because she has already made public statements calling the events of Jan. 6, 2021, an “insurrection.”
Ms. Bellows announced earlier this month that her office had received three separate challenges to President Trump’s eligibility and then held a public hearing on the matter, which turned into a mini-trial according to reports. Scott Gessler, a former Colorado Secretary of State, had represented President Trump in Colorado, and is doing so in Maine as well.
