Donald J. Trump v. Secretary of State et al.

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Appeal to the Law Court

The Law Court docket number is Ken-24-24.

• January 24, 2024: Order Dismissing Motion (Horton, J.)


• January 24, 2024: Decision 2024 ME 5

  [T]he Secretary of State and three challengers to Donald J. Trump’s primary petition—Kimberley Rosen, Thomas Saviello, and Ethan Strimling—appeal from an interlocutory order of the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Murphy, J.) remanding to the Secretary of State the matter in which the Secretary of State decided that the petition submitted by former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a candidate for the Maine Republican Party’s presidential primary was invalid because of a false declaration of qualification on his candidate consent form. Because the appeal is not from a final judgment, we dismiss the appeal as interlocutory and not justiciable.



• January 23, 2024: Motion To Clarify filed by Donald J. Trump
• January 23, 2024: Order Enlarging Page Limit of Briefs (Horton, J.)
• January 23, 2024: Order Admitting Visiting Attorneys (Horton, J.)
• January 23, 2024: Motion For Enlargement of Page Limits for the briefs filed by the Secretary of State


• January 23, 2024: Memoranda Showing Cause why the appeal should not be dismissed as interlocutory:
  • Secretary of State
  • Donald J. Trump
  • Parties-In-Interest Kimberly Rose, Thomas Saviello, and Ethan Strimling
  • William Clardy
    


• January 23, 2024: Motions for admission of Scott Gessler, Esq., Geoffrey Blue, Esq., Ronald Coleman, Esq., and Gary Lawkowski, Esq., as visiting counsel pro hac vice filed by Donald J. Trump
• January 19, 2024: Order To Show Cause Why Appeal Should Not Be Dismissed As Interlocutory (Stanfill, C.J.)
  
  

Matter before the Superior Court

The following documents were filed in the Kennebec County Superior Court under docket numbers AP-24-12 and AP-24-01 and caption Donald J. Trump v. Shenna Bellows, in her official capacity as Secretary of State, State of Maine.

• Notice and Briefing Schedule (PDF)
• Agency Record issued March 4, 2024 filed by the Maine Secretary of State (PDF)
• Complaint (Petition for Review of Final Agency Pursuant to M.R. Civ.P. 80C) (PDF)
• Emergency Motions for Admission of Visiting Counsel (PDF)

• Notice of Appeal filed by the Parties-In-Interest (PDF)
• Notice of Appeal filed by the Secretary of State (PDF)

• Filing Titled "Ballot Access News" (PDF) The Superior Court accepted this filing as an amicus brief
• Amicus Brief of Free Speech for People (PDF)
• Amicus Brief of William Clardy (PDF)
• Amicus Curiae Brief of CREW (PDF)
• Petition to Intervene and Amicus Brief of Michael G. Bindner (PDF)
• Amicus Curiae Brief of Mary Anne Royal (PDF)
• Amicus Curiae Brief of David F. Emery (PDF)
• Amicus Curiae Brief of Randall B. Hofland (PDF)
• Amici Curiae Brief of National Republican Senatorial Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee (PDF)
• Order and Decision (PDF)
• Notice of Supplemental Authority (PDF)
• Reply Brief of Donald Trump (PDF)
• Brief of Respondent Secretary of State Bellows and Opposition to Motion to Supplement the Record (PDF)
• Parties in Interest Rule 80C Brief (PDF)
• Opening Brief of Donald Trump (PDF)
• Motion to Supplement the Record (PDF)
• Reply to Motion to Stay (PDF)
• Parties-in-Interest Opposition to Motion to Stay Proceedings (PDF)
• Opposition of Respondent Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to Motion to Stay Proceedings (PDF)
• Amended Motion to Stay Proceedings (PDF)
• Motion to Stay Proceedings (PDF)
• Procedural Order (PDF)
• Complaint (PDF)
• Ruling of the Secretary of State (PDF)

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