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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally in Waterloo, Iowa, December 19, 2023
DONALD TRUMP’S supporters have vowed to overcome a ruling by Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows that he is ineligible to stand in the state’s presidential primary.
Maine is the second state to remove Mr Trump from a ballot, with Colorado’s Supreme Court doing so earlier this month on the same grounds, that people who have “engaged in insurrection” are barred from standing for public office.
Ms Bellows’ ruling is suspended until Maine’s courts have ruled on it, while Colorado’s courts are awaiting a decision by the US Supreme Court on whether the insurrection clause, under section 3 of the 14th amendment to the US constitution, applies to Mr Trump.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
