<p>Votes cast for former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in Maine&#8217;s primary on Super Tuesday will be counted after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> ruled states cannot remove him from the ballot using Section 3 of the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14th Amendment</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maine</a> Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, withdrew the ban on Trump in a <a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-03-04-Modified-ruling-of-the-ME-Secretary-of-State-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">modified ruling</a> that took into consideration the high court&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-trump-cant-be-kicked-off-colorado-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> on Monday in a case from Colorado called <em>Trump v. Anderson</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individual states lack authority to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to federal offices,&#8221; Bellows said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Consistent with my oath and obligation to follow the law and the Constitution, and pursuant to the <em>Anderson</em> decision, I hereby withdraw my determination that Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>In December, Maine became the second state to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-kicks-trump-off-2024-primary-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disqualify</a> Trump from the ballot following Colorado over the view that he violated the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14th Amendment&#8217;s</a> insurrection clause due to his conduct leading up to the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021.</p>
<p>Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-biased-decision-maker-trump-appeals-dem-officials-ruling-to-kick-him-off-maine-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appealed</a> the decision to the Maine Superior Court. His lawyers argued Bellows was biased and made a decision based on &#8220;untrustworthy evidence.&#8221; A judge put the decision <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-judge-delays-trump-ballot-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on hold</a> until the Supreme Court ruled, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-remains-on-ballot-in-maine-pending-scotus-decision-after-states-top-court-declines-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state&#8217;s top court declined</a> to get involved before that happened.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court decision was timely for Trump, as Colorado and Maine have their GOP primaries scheduled on Super Tuesday. Illinois, a third state in which a decision to bar Trump from the ballot had been reversed, has its GOP primary set for March 19.</p>
<p>Trump is spearheading another presidential campaign this year. He is currently the GOP frontrunner with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/republican-primary-delegates-tracker-calendar.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">273 delegates</a> over Nikki Haley&#8217;s 43 delegates. If he secures the nomination, Trump could face President Joe Biden in a 2020 rematch in the general election.</p>
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<p>But as he runs again for the White House, Trump faces a bevy of criminal cases, some of which are tied to January 6, as well as civil litigation. Trump has broadly denied any wrongdoing.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> announced last week that it was taking up the issue of whether <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> can invoke presidential immunity to shield himself from federal prosecution in a 2020 election case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. An oral argument is <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23a745.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled</a> for the week of April 22.</p>

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