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viewers joining us in the united states and around the world, i am rosemary church. ahead, donald trump appeals the decision to remove him from maine s presidential primary ballot, accusing the states top election official of bias. a u.s. official says israel was responsible for the strikes on lebanon that killed a senior hamas leader. and investigators begin their search into what caused that fiery runway collision in japan. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. former u.s. president donald trump is asking a main court to overturn a decision, removing him from the states 2024 primary ballot. maine s secretary of state set last week that she had a legal application to block trump from the ballot over his role in the
of trump s argument that the maine secretary of state, we just heard her, was politically biased against him? i think that s probably the least-effective argument he ll make in the courts of this proceeding. the court is unlikely to take that into great consideration. the maine secretary of state serves i think at the discretion of the governor. she was appointed in her position. most folks in those positions have political affiliations. i don t think any of those indicators undermine her decision. but it s the questions of process, the questions of what is the sort of due process that he was entitled to in this according to what s happened in maine, and was that standard met? that s the more substantive and potential more effective argument. marcus quhild recess, in his appeal trump s attorneys write this. section 3 of the 14th amendment to the constitution does not apply to president trump. he has never served as an officer of the united states and has never taken an oath to s
it s a little different than some of the other oaths that other officers, as defined under federal law and the constitution, take. so there is that difference. that s why the supreme court is going to have to settle that officer question. you know, when we think about it in lay terms, we think, well of course the president is an officer of the united states. but there is actually sort of extensive constitutional debate over that. and that s supreme court territory. speaking of the supreme court, andrew, how much pressure is the u.s. supreme court under right now to take this into consideration? enormous. enormous amount of pressure. the simple the fact that we are looking at the possibility of multiple states deciding this issue, not only differently but on different grounds, that is a conflict that the supreme court was born to resolve. inconsistency across the states and the interpretation of the constitution, the execution of federal matters, really. they absolutely must weigh