The Mixed Blessing of Trump Ballot Removals

Eric Medlin
3 min readJan 4, 2024

They won’t save the country. But they may also do some good.

The Colorado Supreme Court. Source: The Hill

The slow holiday news cycles were broken up by the news on December 29 that Donald Trump has been removed from the Republican primary ballot in Maine. This decision follows up an earlier decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove the former president from the state’s primary ballot, a decision that led to days of…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites