From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Maine becomes the second state to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot under the 14th Amendment.

Plus the House passes a bill to tighten transparency rules on foreign funding to U.S.

colleges and universities.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurn and Kim Strassal. The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War and

includes Section 3 that was intended to stop Confederates who, quote, engaged in insurrection from retaking posts in the federal government or the

state government.

And the big political news last week was a second state has now applied that to Donald

Trump and the January 6th 2021 Riot. That is the state of

Maine and Secretary of State Sheta Bellows in an administrative ruling. Here she is

on a local CBS affiliate explaining where this issue goes now and why she

made this decision.

Main law requires me to issue a decision.

Then any of the parties and and in this case, Mr. Trump,

have five days to go to Superior Court.

I stayed the effect of my decision.

So nothing happens until the court makes a final ruling if they can also have the right to appeal after Superior Court to the main Supreme Judicial Court and to the U.S. Supreme Court.

So this is how the process works here in the state.

I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution

and I fulfilled my duty.

I reviewed the evidence, and in my view the weight of the evidence made

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