At the same time the Colorado Republican Party files a petition to the United States Supreme Court to overturn a disqualification ruling issued by the Colorado Supreme Court {link}, a challenge that will result in President Trump appearing on the Colorado ballot {link}, the Democrat Maine Secretary of State has ruled by fiat that Trump should be disqualified.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issued a public statement [SEE HERE] declaring that under her independent determination, President Trump should be disqualified.
(Via Politico) – Maine on Thursday became the second state to declare former President Donald Trump ineligible to serve as president because of his involvement in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made the decision, booting Trump off the state’s ballot under an interpretation of the 14th Amendment that argues Trump cannot serve again because he supported or “engaged in insurrection or rebellion.”
[…] “I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Bellows wrote in her determination. “I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.”
[…] In a statement, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung attacked Bellows as “a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat.” He called the push to have Trump disqualified “partisan election interference efforts,” and said the campaign “will quickly file a legal objection in state court to prevent this atrocious decision in Maine from taking effect.” (MORE)
It is a remarkable display of political hubris and hypocrisy to see the Lawfare leftists proclaim they are defending democracy by trying to destroy the foundational “right to vote” of the American electorate. Then again, the hubris and hypocrisy are a feature of communism, not a flaw therein.
The Maine decision by fiat will likely first travel through the judicial system in the state, as the determination of the Secretary of State holds no legal basis outside the authority granted to an individual office holder.
The need for control is a reaction to fear. If the totalitarian left thought they could win on substance and policy, they would not resort to these insufferable Lawfare tactics. Those who hold office by fiat need to be dispatched with extreme prejudice.
[SOURCE]
Color me…shocked. /Sarcasm
Tyrants gonna tyrant until they get punched in the face (literally or metaphorically).
“The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
They ain’t afraid. We don’t give them a reason to be. They push us around and we take it because we are kind, patient, and tolerant. It’s a suicide pact.
You get it!
Republicans, writ large, are doormats.
It’s not us they’re afraid of, it’s Trump.
It’s Trump short term, but they are afraid they have a long term problem with us. The short term problem is the fuse. What does that make the long term problem? They have to find a way to snuff out the fuse.
Definition of short term and long term: In the short term, all variables are fixed. In the long term, one or more variables become “un-fixed.”
Also, “In the long term we’re all dead.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
>> They have to find a way to snuff out the fuse.
Good luck with that.
Everything they (TPTB) do acts as an accelerant.
He’s been way too nice to them, too. He never gave them much reason to fear anything but smaller bribes.
Exactly.
“because we are kind, patient, and tolerant” or maybe because we are just cowards who are afraid to make a fuss.
That’s a valid take.
Precisely!
I disagree. They are afraid, because they see record crowds of Americans flocking to every rally PDJT has, no matter where. Millions of us. They see the fraud of 2020 slowly being exposed. They see America rejecting their policies and politicians, and they know the walls are closing in. They are out of ideas, and now they’re forced to resort to unconstitutional means to try and hold back the MAGA tidal wave.
Most importantly, they know that PDJT won’t make the same mistakes he made during his first term. He won’t fll his administration with milquetoast “Republicans” who will fold like deck chairs when the going gets tough.
The more people are aware were living in a controlled dictatorship the more the controlled dictatorship goes to extremes to keep us, MAGA etc fenced in to control us, all of us.
They saw all that before and stole an election.
They know they’ll never face justice in this life.
I agree with you except they are not AFRAID although they might be desperate now that the pro-Hamas crowd has created a breach in their solidarity. But they are still all mostly resolute in “getting Trump.”
Believe what you will; I disagree.
You disagree on a lot. That, frankly, tells me I’m right.
What you are saying is very true.. we’re good people and we’re being screwed over because of that.
We are being the passive, obedient, well behaved people that our enemies have trained us to be so that they can then win the war -as we sat there nicely as told to do.
We need to wake the hell up and get into ugly beast-mode.
Live Free or Die.
It all comes down to apathy, indifference, and in the end…. COWARDICE.
“………(literally or metaphorically).”
So……we have a choice?
Hypocrisy along with hubris, huh?
Real nice.
Invisaligns not too invisible in the photos. Or is that decayed food?
She’s the definition of both. Look ’em up in the dictionary. There’s picture of her.
Would an appeal go directly to Maine’s Supreme Court?
As I read the campaign’s statement, yes.
“Our democracy”
She just dropped 30 IQ points…from her original double digits.
Good grief…
….ah well…
As is said, “Never interrupt the enemy when he [or she(nna)] is making a mistake.”
she(nna) – excellent! Love this!
This is all politics to gain notoriety for herself. She ran against Susan Collins in 2014 & lost. She’s rumored to be looking to run for governor in 2026 & she’s a politically appointee by a Democrat-dominated legislature. She’s been to the WH twice this year & had at least one photo op with FJB & if impeached, likely has a spot in the WH. IMHAO, of course. I’m someone who’s never been to Maine but knows someone who vacations there.
😂👍
She’s a cupid stunt.
Look, she’s another one of the psychotic midgets that occupy the ranks of the communist political caste in America. Like all political castes their condition has been augmented over the years by the in-breeding necessary in order for the caste to sustain itself.
Fascinating, but strange for an American to witness.
Starting to feel like a stranger in your own home. Most won’t notice until they find themselves living in a cardboard box. DNA seems to be a huge determining factor with people insisting on a Communist ideology to lead the world.
There is that “Democracy” reference again. Was Congressman Traficant correct when he said that the government was changed to a “democracy” by the lenders/creditor banks when Fellow Traveler FDR declared American bankrupt under the “Emergency Banking Act”?
Yes, at least in psychological warfare terms.
The communist terrorists supported by the Globalists in Africa all became Democracy supporters/Democrats after they achieved power and began pillaging,plundering, and destroying the countries. Now SA has a Nikki Haley like Gupta Network destroying the country, and their puppet Jacob Zuman reciting Gupta scripts demonizing the White Christian founding population who had made the country what it once was.
Who in their right mind thinks that usury, fractional reserve banking, and debt financing isn’t the biggest scam every perpetrated against the world. Ask an average person why inflation happens, and they tell you it’s because the price of things go up. lol
As lightweight as a particular pea-brained doofus species ..
the hobgoblin of little minds. Typical of all Biden’s nomination to office
It appears that Maine has a drug problem in their SOS office.
She thinks this will help her become governor.
*selected as “governor”
She may be right.
…hmm, I suspect she is wrong in multiple ways.
Sheena will be overruled, however, the nonsense has been said out loud.
Another miserable leftist sow.
She’s afraid Trump will become president.
Xena:SheenaWarriorWorrier Princess…….Who in God’s creation names their child “Shenna”?
… people who couldn’t spell “Sheena”
Short for She-na-very-bright.
that’s hilarious..take it, it’s yours, but please return the internets tomorrow night, we will need it back.
God Bless America
“There ought to be a few rules” Louis CK 😂
Most likely a Shonna.
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Yeah. With a name like this, I wasn’t expecting her to be Caucasian.
that can change!
I received an e-mail from the NYT that Pres. Trump is off the Maine ballot as well as the Colorado ballot – they need to get more up-to-date news!
Suejeanne, I don’t believe PDJT was ‘taken off’ the ballot in CO. Rather, they said he would be removed if the US Supreme Court agrees, but while waiting for a decision, PDJT will remain on the CO ballot.
Can a reader confirm?
The Colorado Court’s decision on page 9 says if Trump appeals (he has) then the Secretary is instructed to place his name on the ballot.
If I’m understanding this, the Maine Secretary just went ahead and decided to keep Trump off the ballot forcing him to file in court for relief. (typical Lawfare tactic. Bleed the person of funds, even though the ultimate result is Lawfare loses in court)
The original Colo. Order said the decision took effect Jan. 4. But if someone appeals, the Secretary of State must leave him on the ballot pending its outcome.
Yesterday, Jay Sekulow/ACLJ, representing the Colo. Republican Party, filed an appeal with the Supremes. (I don’t know if Trump has officially filed his appeal to the Supremes) . The Colo. Sec. of State then announced Trump would remain on the ballot. The deadline for printing the ballots is Jan. 5. She implored the Supremes to rule quickly.
If you can, donate to ACLJ. Jay is one of the good guys. (I wonder what he said to Colo. Republicans to get them off their asses)
NYT – anti-Trump in many ways opinion pieces; not a place for real news
Ahhh… A true believer she is.
https://x.com/wegotit2k/status/1737539656785568150?s=46&t=uGOnufVLI5Igl3vW9mUVJg
Change “x.com/…” to “twitter.com/… for all links to twitter for them to display here in CTH
Wondering why Alex says she is unelected?
I posted this to him on twitter, but no answer so far.
She may have been appointed to fill out a term.
Shouldn’t be hard to find out OR some obvious cheating took place on the funky kind of balloting Maine uses..where the loser wins.
Secretarys of State are appointed by the state legislature to 2-yr terms. Maine’s state legislature is a Democrat majority, I believe.
‘Shenna’ translates to ‘here comes the sniff’.
What is that terminology I’m looking for?… oh yes, she is a “useful idiot”.
Indeed, the pure definition of “useful idiot”.
Could be a Greta clone look alike. Just how does one get access to Presidents fir photo ops like that?
These efforts, in this instance and in Colorado, are essentially temper tantrums masquerading as legal maneuvers. This dimwitted broad will fail just as Ms. Griswold in Colorado has.
These losers will lose because that’s what losing losers do.
TRUMP 2024
Crazy liberal Karen eyes. Check. Crazy liberal Karen hair. check. $10 says she’s married but doesn’t carry her husband’s name…just like all of them.
Or wife’s name
Exactly. Her husband is named Brandon Baldwin. She was Executive Director of the ACLU of Maine for eight years, worked for 7 years for same sex marriage in Maine, worked for same day voter registration, and has been recognized for her work to advance women’s health and reproductive choice.
It’s worse then than I thought.
Can we stop insulting women named Karen?
How about “Crazy Liberal AOC eyes” instead?
Very funny – 😂💪❤️ BUT I’ve never understood why the name Hillary was not the original “Karen” meme…
Right!
No Wonder Bill went to Epstein Island so often! Very Creepy looking!
The meme is an extension of urban slang. For whatever reason, “Karen” was the name applied to these, typically white, snobbish women that would harangue some poor employee that was assisting them – hence the “let me talk to your manager” aspect of the meme.
I first heard it used in a Starbucks long before the meme. Some woman went on a 10-15 minute tirade about the temperature of her coffee. Just a power trip so she could force the poor girl to make another latte. Fortunately, I was ahead of her in line so I had my coffee. I could see the people behind her getting frustrated. The “karen” in question knew just how long she could push it before the people behind her kicked her out the door.
Or, could the nice ladies named Karen change their names?
😂 after today I so appreciate a good laugh! Thank you both ❤️
Nah, it is better to insult A. Occasional-Cortex instead:
😂😂😂😂😂
No offense intended…apologies.
She is the former director of ACLU Maine. Before the ACLU she was in the Peace Corps and then AmeriCorps VISTA . I see no record of her ever holding an actual job in the productive world.
Graduated Middlebury College, Greenfield, Mass in 1997. Her thesis was in “economic and environmental sustainability.”
Spouse’s name: Brandon Baldwin
Yep, you nailed it.
Environmental sustainability: Stop immigration & deport. That is genuine environmental protection according to the ‘science’
Dang…guess I shoulda expanded the check list and made it a Powerball Pick 6…
Isn’t the Peace Corps another front group for the clowns?
Married to Brandon Baldwin.
Brandon Baldwin:
“…is a schools and curriculum coordinator for the Civil Rights Team Project for the office of the Attorney General in Maine.”
“The mission of the Civil Rights Team Project is to increase the safety of elementary, middle level, and high school students by reducing bias-motivated behaviors and harassment in our schools.” (from their website)
In other words, he is a white-guilt Leftist CRT organizer paid on the government dole to radicalize school children.
That’s a might elevated title.
How does he fit it on a business card?
Of course he is….an inbedded parasitic tapeworm flying under the radar like Mary McCords husband.
Can we have a look at the last 8 months of “her” banking records?
No word either way from Maine Senator Susan Collins yet……
I suspect her silence can be interpreted as tacit approval of the Unconstitutional actions of the ME. SoS.
Susan is too busy trying to obliterate the gun rights of members of the military, GB.
Oh great. Not. I knew something was wrong with Kavanaugh when she put on her act to “reluctantly” approve his nomination to SCOTUS.
His record on that bench confirms my suspicions. She’s just another Leftwing RINO.
Well, yeah. 👍
This Sec. of State ran against Sen. Collins & lost in 2014. Probably are best buds when it comes to Trump. Hmmmm, I wonder if Shenna has a photo-op with McConnell.
Trying to make up for her vote on the NDAA 702 extension?
Member of the Armed Services committee, and votes for money for her district, i.e., Fort Drum, etc. The lumped spending and having to the pay for the associated crap on the other pages, where the spending is probably now or never, etc.–get the congress to get rid of omnibus bills, dealing with numerous thing at once, and force them to record spending as single bills.
https://stefanik.house.gov/2023/12/stefanik-votes-to-pass-fy-2024-national-defense-authorization-act
Why not Elise for VP?
IMO… The ‘Elise’ logo has a visual similarity to the Biden logo, the Hillary logo, and the Obama/Biden logo.
Symbolism will be ‘their’ downfall.
What’s the name of her Lodge?
🤔😂😂😂😂😂
Pink Haired zim/zer Lodge.
Camp Deadwood
Dead River Re-Education Lodge.
Thank the Mainiac Susan Collins for saving obamacare. And people think a fair election is in the air.
I live in central Maine. Moved here recently from New Hampshire. They are crazy up here.
They have ranked choice voting which is a disaster. Gov Mills is all-in on electric vehicles. This push may weaken them. Add Trump ballot issue and hopefully they will experience some pain..Trump won the north where I am. Southern Maine with large democrat cities weighted the results like everywhere else.
Thinking about relocating. Only thing. Being in the boonies has its benefits.
Be well all!
We must destroy democracy to save democracy…or something.
“The Royal challenge” How appropriate.
The “Royal we”, man.
“I’m way calmer than you dude”
Now you see why DeSanctimonious hangs on to hopes of winning the nomination. Enough states disqualify Trump from their ballots can throw the nomination to the convention.
Watch General Flynn announce he is running.
Is she really that stupid to believe she has this constitutional authority?
That’s what amazes me; the power grab of constitutional authority without any thought of ramifications.
It is just so blatantly obvious what they are doing, that it is downright stupid.
This gal’s political career is over.
Not for Democrats. Doing these sorts of lawfare acts raises their stock within the party. I’m sure there are plenty of Democrats in Maine that will support her if she runs for governor.
I think Maine needs a couple bus loads of illegals.
TRAINloads.
Have you ever visited Lewiston/Auburn area?
Yes
Hubris is believing that we can vote our way out of a global Bolshevik led communist coup by voting again in an election already stolen.
The truth has no agenda. The Bolsheviks will not surrender power without a fight.
Victor Davis Hanson posted this four days ago in case anyone missed it.
“…Ballot Banishing And Our New Leftwing Confederates
In the election of 1860, southern Democrats in 10 states of the soon-to-be formalized Confederacy made it almost impossible for their own voters to cast ballots for Abraham Lincoln for President.
In that sense, the Left in Colorado would have felt right at home in the ante-bellum South—erasing the name of a presidential candidate whom they loathed and by whom they were similarly terrified.
In eerie fashion, and also similar to the old ethos of the Confederacy, the Democratic Left now believes in state nullification of federal statutes…”
https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1739039569365114924?s=20
Hey Victor. That was all men doing that. Let’s not pretend this was a fair fight in the first place.
Not shocked at all – after what they pulled on election night 2020.
Trump was winning big at 10pm and it was all over in a few hours after they stopped everything.
Btw I’m a broken record saying this but I don’t blame Dems. This is all done hand in glove with RINO establishment.
2020 election outcome was 100% possible only because of RINOs.
And, how to RINO’s get elected (all across the country)?
Stupid republicans.
Deranged. Putin smiles.
I disagree.
I believe Putin would prefer President Trump leading this country, if nothing more than to have an intelligent conversation, regardless if they were in agreement on an issue, with a world leader who is also a Nationalist.
Is a US President
an
“0fficer”?
Is that a rhetorical question?
No, according to our side.
NO!
Officers are appointed, not elected.
Mz Bellows requests your opinion about her decision.
1- 207-626-8400 Fax: 1-207-287-8598 email: [email protected]
Yet another example of why letting women vote was a BAD idea.
If they could have voted at the time, the 19th Amendment would not have passed.
Here we go again . . . . .
No one says men shouldn’t be allowed to vote because of Jack Smith.
In the 100+ years since women have been granted the franchise, nothing good has come of it.
We now have a vaginocracy staffed by gynocrats like this nitwit in Maine. Everything for the “sisterhood” eh ?
So George Floyd should have been able to vote, but not me?
Good grief.
Maybe we should starting saying that 🙂
I agree with this and am a woman.
Women in politics has destroyed this country.
Of course what Lawfare is now doing is forcing its way in front of the SCOTUS. Which will have no choice but to rule against them on this and several other issues.
Fundamentally, the People have the privilege of choosing who they wish to vote for. Courts cannot “decide” that a candidate is “guilty of some crime” or “excluded by the 14th Amendment” and thereby disenfranchise the voters of an entire state.
It’s easy to see where this would go: the Courts decide who you are allowed to “vote” for, and there is only one choice on the ballot. “You’ll get used to it, Comrade.”
Your 3rd paragraph:
That’s what Lawfare is all about.
However, a Thomas Supreme Court will not allow that. And it is a Thomas Supreme Court today.
I bet millions of MAGAdonians are not, nor ever will be “Comrade”
.
According to the last paragraph of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment & case law, it’s up to Congress to find a candidate guilty of an insurrection. Impeachment 2 did not result in a conviction, nor did Pelosi’s J6 Committee find him guilty of insurrection. And of course, neither granted due process to Pres. Trump at the time hearings were conducted. Arguably the courts don’t have the authority to decide a 14th Amendment case.
Even if a President was an “officer” for purposes of the 14th Amendment.
*uck these monsters.
So basically the Maine SoS is just voicing a personal opinion using company letterhead.
Once again, I point out the spiritual contribution of Charles Dickens in naming today’s Noisome Antagonist: Bellows.
Indeed.
I’m not shocked at her actions just surprised she doesn’t have prominent equine facial features like most Democrat women.
Why the long face syndrome ? LOL
Just this morning a guy I grew up with in my native Scotland asked WTF was going on with the U.S.
My reply was what was going on in the U.K. but on steroids.
He is a bright guy was unable to comprehend that the U.S. had evolved into such lawlessness, and an obvious attempt to forever alter the U.S. as it was once known.
I didn’t get into the weeds as time did not allow it, and unless one was CTH and Sundance follower since 2016 what has and is transpiring is simply too far fetched to comprehend.
We will see, but 2024 is looking more and more like Armageddon.
As they ain’t backing down, and I as sure am not.
Cheers!
Nice to learn others are seeing it and also appalled.
Always like your comments, Dekester, and not just because they prompt a good swig at the end.
Here’s to the Republic of Western Canada!
When are Republican SOS’s going to block the Democrats? They had the biggest insurrection of all in 1861!
If the people’s choice isn’t allowed on the ballots the that state’s electors should not be counted.
I respectfully disagree. The Constitution does not require that there even be elections for electors (and there weren’t elections in the early years of the Republic). It only requires that the electors be selected by a procedure selected by the state legislature.
At which time and in which court was Trump found guilty of insurrection by a judge or jury?
He has not even been charged with it – and you know if there was any possible way to have done so it would be there with the rest of their evil nonsense.
First they have to charge him (which they have not), and then the only way the 14th Amendment is applicable is thru impeachment, which Congress failed to convict.
Verdict first! Evidence later! Either he or his head must be off and in about half no time!
of HeartsShenna BellowsGlobalism is already a dead end street. It will just STOP!
Swatting…Lawfare style.
Blinded by their own ideology. A threat to our freedom to cast a vote.
Leaving these links here in case anyone fancies a read of the quoted Statutes with the referenced challenges.
Annotated Maine Revised Statutes (A.M.R.S.)
Title 21-A, Chapter 5: NOMINATIONS
https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-A/title21-Ach5sec0.html
§336 Consent of candidate to be filed
https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-A/title21-Asec336.html
§337 Review and challenge of petitions
https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-A/title21-Asec337.html
Thank you!
Scumbags, all of them, may they rot in hell forever and ever amen.
“It is a remarkable display of political hubris and hypocrisy to see the Lawfare leftists proclaim they are defending democracy by trying to destroy the foundational “right to vote” of the American electorate.”
They had to destroy the village in order to save it.
You’re speaking of the Village of Democrat?
Yes, please….may I have one destroyed – with extra prejudice on the side?
What the dems are doing is laying the groundwork for riots after Trump wins.
And, believe me, they know how to riot and they know how to use guns at a riot.
What is their next step after they have the populace on their side?
What “populace” do you write of?
The headcases who don’t know a magazine from a “thingy that goes up.”
#battlefieldpickups
Bettie, get right with God and prepare accordingly…Keep your powder dry.
“I am so proud.”
“And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects.”
Andrew Weissman
Sally Yates flashback
A state AG cannot just take someone off the ballot! This is absurd!
You are correct AND neither can a Secretary of State.
I live here and she is annoying AF
Just another day of antagonizing bs. It is so blatantly unconstitutional SCOTUS should just drop whatever they are doing and put a stop to this shite. But…..Oh yeah, that’s right, our government is nothing but rogue criminals……
Right now the DOJ is busy threating that it will sue the state if Texas implements legislation allowing police to remove people from the country who are suspected of crossing the border illegally.
Good…let’em…
“The need for control is a reaction to fear. “
So if big, bad, mean and nasty us just stopped scaring the poor little innocent darlings all would be right in the world.
Honestly, I just don’t think we are that scary or they would start behaving themselves.
We are witnessing a coup in real time being perpetrated by the party in power to remain in power. If this isn’t a coup, then the Russian revolution was a peaceful transfer of power.
Two can play this game. Must be time for Republican states to remove Biden from the Democrat primary ballot.
I think more than just Biden needs to be removed. How about all the Democrats. Make them pay for it.
It is astonishing how the bottom feeders make these *moves* without fear of retribution. Until some/all of them find themselves in prison (or drawn & quartered), they will continue with this *lawfare* crap!!
Yes. Sovereign immunity laws need a substantial overhaul. I’m tired of being angry at all these antics of Democrats & RINOs & no accountability but the vote.
I know better and don’t trust the voters to “do the right thing”.
This woman is vile.
Ok I see movie trailers for that Civil War movie coming out next year that just scream PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING. Then I look back and the last time a Presidential candidate was removed from the ballots was Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Yeah we know what ensued. It just seems that the hive minded forces of evil are pushing us toward a civil war. I say resist. Love your brother. Seek diplomacy first. Laugh at and mock evil. Peacefully gather. Hold elected officials to accountability. I choose to remain hopeful.