UPDATE:Donald Trumpwill be on the Californiaballotfor the state primary in March.
Weber did not issue a statement on her decision to keep Trump on the ballot.
In the wake of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that the former president was ineligible, California Lt. Gov.
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Eleni Kounalakis had called for Trump to be kept off the ballot.
But Weber responded with a letter that suggested that it would be up to the courts to decide.
Read the Maine decision.
The decision follows a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Trump is ineligible to hold office.
In her decision, Bellows wrote that she did not reach this conclusion lightly.
I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.
Judges in other states like Minnesota and Michigan have turned back efforts to keep Trump off the ballot.
Everything else is a political distraction.
