Maine barred Donald Trump from the primary ballot Thursday, making it the second state in the country to block the former president from running again under a part of the Constitution that prevents insurrectionists from holding office.

The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) is sure to be appealed. The Colorado Supreme Court last week found Trump could not appear on the ballot in that state, and the Colorado Republican Party has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. The nation’s high court could resolve for all states whether Trump can run again.

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    • pulaskiwasrightEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      How does relieving the housing crisis lead to corporations buying cheap farmland?

      And how’s any of that related to candidates being removed from the states’ ballots?

      • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 months ago

        I think the commenter you’re replying to made some logical enough jumps.

        Like it seems that they’re assuming people in Republican rural counties who start doing this to random candidates would move out, causing a localized housing crisis in that area that banks could come in and capitalize on like the vultures that they tend to act like. That would lead to the pattern that they’re painting in their comment.

        So I can imagine how it’s all connected, but that said, I don’t claim to know the inner mind of this poster so I could be very wrong.