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.
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This is comedy, right? She’s joking, right?
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She is young and easily led around by the nose from her state government employee unions.
We see this garbage in California all the time .Term limits means bunch of very young and stupid people making policy decisions. Who never need to stick around and face the consequences. Term limits made our state government totally devoid of any institutional wisdom or protection.
Term limits created only a massive cash grab by the government employee unions.
She does look like the nose ring type. Pic on GP. Why so much idiocy in Maine ?
Idiocy seeps northward from Massachusetts.
Yep.
Them folks from away, causing all the trouble.
Shenna Lee Bellows (born March 23, 1975)
Never thought of term limits in that way. Given the last three dumbed down generations, I guess it was inevitable. Thanks!
Term limits isn’t age limits; the replacement doesn’t have to be a young know-nothing. Just need to bust up an old cabal or two from time to time, and build new cabals. Spread the lucre.
Public servants should not be allowed to unionized on the basis that Unions unavoidably get always capture by political operatives. Teacher Unions a prime example of political capture.
It should be laws that forbid any political or ideological activity, donations to political parties etc from public servant unions.
Thanks for that. If I remember unionization was law for Private sector originally. It may have been via court ruling in 70s that public employees could unionize. They were consciously excluded (by FDR). I can’t remember the full details.
I agree completely! Term limits have favored the centrally organized Dems because they are lovers of endless meetings and gatherings, just like their communist forbears were. They then hop destructively from office to office. The RNC, of course, doesn’t have a clue.
I had exactly the same idea before reading yours…
This is nothing more than putting it out there for the court of Public Opinion. Now all of MSM can screech that President Trump is an insurrectionist that shouldn’t be on the ballot. Publicity stunt meant to jam up his campaign with court and lawyers fees.
Yep. Tell the big lie frequently and loudly enough and it gains credibility among the uninformed.
Correct. Furthermore, there is too much complacency on our side re Michigan, and Minnesota. Both courts specifically said their rulings pertained only to primaries. They consider the general election to be, legally speaking, a different animal, in as much as primaries are for the purposes of political parties ONLY. Not so general elections.
Also Colorado SOS Jena Griswold, just as Bellows has done, stayed her decision to place Trump on the ballot until Jan. 5, stating that if SCOTUS fails to accept the case by then, Trump will then NOT be on ballot. Bellows apparently is following the same sinister strategy.
She is THE joke!!
Actually, I view this as rather distressing. Fortunately, the R primary isn’t till March. Hopefully, SCOTUS will rule wisely expeditiously and justly… and that these vile attacks on President Trump serve to continue to increase his support among Americans.
Yes, the Maine Primary is not until March 5th, but at what date do the ballots have to be printed? I don’t know if Maine has early voting period, mail in ballots, and/or absentee ballots, which would require mail/absentee ballots out much earlier.
It’s desperation
Your sentiments are, I know, shared by many. But I don’t see it that way. This is a show of pure power, not desperation, and there’s much more power in store on their side. What has to happen, is that their juggernaut must be stopped or degraded by an equivalent force.
We err to think they are not fully in control. The truth is that we have yet to launch our counter-offensive other than to present our candidates and promote their candicacies. But the Left’s brute force must be stopped by our own levers of power LONG BEFORE ELECTION DAY, or election day will be a vale of tears.
However, those levers of power reside now, principally, in the clout of the Supreme Court, and in conservatives in elected office and in the state governments.
Yet they are sitting on their hands. And to their eternal shame!
I’m starting to think we have too many women in government. Or are we just randomly getting all the authoritarian women in public office.
Try too many communists in government.
Is it just coincidence that the increase of communists in government has paralleled the increase of women in government? I don’t believe in coincidences.
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Try too many women communists in government.
Lot of angry black women in official positions now seem to have a real thing for Trump. Not sure why.
It is what they are told to feel…
They’re put up as the ‘face’ because their melanin content makes them unassailable. You know, if you disagree with a POC you’re a racist.
Let’s take a look into the past shall we? Pence, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Bush 1 and 2. My family lost our farm under Carter. Men have done an incredible amount of damage to this country – deliberately. It is nearly in ruins. Your sexist garbage is completely illogical and getting very old.
Evil can be done by either sex.
That was my point. I appreciate the clarification. There are now far too many on CTH who are sowing division, and it is truly heartbreaking. I have been here many years and the racist and sexist comments are a very new phenomenon. The old tree has been infested with borers.
Carry on oh brave White Knight
I will. I teach my students that the first one to name call in a debate loses because they lack reasonable evidence.
Ok, you called me a sexist first so I guess you lost the “debate”.
I only said your comments are sexist garbage, which is a fact.
Saying my comment is sexist but I’m not is a distinction without a difference. C’mon admit it. Never in our history have this many women served in public office. Stating that men have implemented disastrous policies is a given which I didn’t think would need explanation. I stand corrected.
I agree men must bear blame.
However women and children in power is a leading indicator of judgement, Isaiah chapter 3.
V 12 Youths oppress My people,
and women rule over them.
O My people, your guides mislead you;
they turn you from your paths.
I am very careful about using God’s word to make a point. Context and original language and intent is very important. A careful reading of scripture shows that God has a problem with both evil men and women. Accusing an entire group of having a certain type of behavior simply because of anatomy is not something I have ever seen in red letters . I for one am grateful that the Almighty God judges the heart. I wish it were so with others here as it once used to be.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I wonder if the purpose is to make the dialogue so toxic that people stop coming to the Treehouse.
You are disagreeing with what I didn’t say. I never said God only had a problem with ONLY evil women. I never accused an entire group of anatomy related behavior.
I used the scripture appropriately in context with a careful reading. Maybe you didn’t carefully read my post or the scripture referenced.
DEI in government and military (which is what we are getting) is dangerously bad and many do actions based on “feels” vs logic
This woman’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.
When will the swat teams wake up and start swatting the commie flys?
This article hit yesterday on my local news:
Chalmette woman files suit seeking to remove Trump from Louisiana ballot
https://www.kplctv.com/2023/12/27/chalmette-woman-files-suit-seeking-remove-trump-louisiana-ballot/
BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) – A Chalmette woman has filed a petition objecting to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump and seeking an injunction to disqualify him from the Louisiana primary ballot next March.
Ashley Reeb filed the lawsuit against outgoing Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, asking that Ardoin be compelled to disqualify Trump from the state’s ballot because of the former president’s role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
btw we do have a new Louisiana Secretary of State… 😛
Ya think this is organized? Colorado sent out the first dog whistle; totally ignoring the legally sound rejection of the same issue by Michigan. Taxpayers in these hive mind TDS states are wasting their own money. Impeach them. They are not taking their duties or oath seriously.
The voters and taxpayers of these states need to sue their Secretary of state for infringement of their civil right to vote for their preferred candidate as well as wasting the taxpayers money on frivolous lawsuits.
Might also want to check and see if these Secretaries of State need to post a bond in order to serve, and if so, get that bond revoked.
Tge website:
Bondsforthewin
has instructions on how to do so.
Also works for school boards, library boards, etc.
Absolutely, yes.
Lawyers laughing all the way to the bank comes another avenue of making quick easy money. Wait for Supreme Court. And why not while the sun is hot? Charge them extraordinarily huge sums. These idiots will cry foul when the big bad Supreme Court rules on this.
This should be an easy ruling– no standing.
There are no coincidences.
How about we disqualify every elected official who arbitrarily ignores the Rule of Law we have in this country.
DEAL!
Use the Bond to do what you suggest!
Starting with one who ignores immigration laws.
We are being ruled by HOA Board Presidents.
More of a mean girls high school cafeteria clique.
Look at who staffs DIE offices in business, education, government, etc.
In Maine People’s Republic, only Party approved candidate appears on the ballot. You can vote for Party candidate. See, we have elections.
Just like the Mullahs do in Iran.
Apparently SoS Bellows suspended her ruling, subject to SCOTIS ruling on appeal….
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She’s playing mind games, like the rest of these idiots that are ‘removing’ DJT’s name from the ballots and then double back on it.
Don’t take the bait.
I’m not taking any bait either way. Just posted a tweet that had an image of the Sos document with supporting text on it. It deserves questioning or at least refutation if it’s false. Better to post here and have greater chance someone knows and will reply with the exact facts behind this.
That’s right, GB, stay calm, firm, and show competence and consistency. People gravitate to his in a sea of Chaos and instability
👍👍
They’re showing the world their mental illness. Stat
She suspended it only for the Maine Superior Court to rule on appeal, not the SCOTUS. So if the Maine Superior Court rules for her, the suspension is over.
Correct. My error typing SCOTUS. Good catch.
Is this not what Colorada did as well?
Not exact;y. The CO Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision overturned a lower court’s ruling that Trump, despite being found guilty in that court of the Jan 6 insurrection, didn’t disqualify him from running for prez. The higher court said yes it does disqualify him. Then ScOTUS rained on their charade…..
extreme paraphrasing here from Sundance’s explanation of lawfare –
She’s playing the game of Lawfare, twisting words in the law to make headlines in order to feed emotional drug of hate to their cult followers, fully knowing none of this stuff will stand actual legal scrutiny.
Well, she’s just trying to avoid the legal ramifications when the upper court tells her to shove it…
And Fox news is fanning the flames of breathless headline reporting to undermine trump and still pretend to be conservative.
(yes read it, to keep an eye on how our enemies are trying to manipulate my family and friends, so that I can be prepared with reliable information to refute them)
She got the “Trump is an insurrectionist” headline she was seeking, together with the corresponding media blast across the nation. Mission accomplished.
Either she playing a mf game or she’s so stupid the grown ups had to reel her in. Under the circumstances.
I just wish there were consequences for her unlawful actions.
Consequences are usually inevitable despite not always being immediate.
Continued Prayers and unshakeable faith will see this through.
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If the Left wants to start proclaiming the 2020 election was illegitimate and thus all of their actions since are, that’d definitely a new line of attack.
I don’t think the Left will reverse their stance. They’re too dug in; they’ve sold their souls to Satan and will insist that their lies are the truth to their last breath.
Sowing chaos — an approved communist/democrat party means of ticking everybody off. Don’t worry, there’s more of this to come. They are experts at evil. But, God still has a vote.
❤️ oh yes. And Gods vote outweighs all else.
Another example of Color of Law criminality.
Maine is begging for a SCOTUS smack-down.
But their real goal is to drain out Trump campaign cash, and generate spurious sound bites.
Maine should impeach everyone of of these partisan scofflaws.
Her 15 minutes of fame.
Is up.
15 minutes of shame.
Nah, 15 months of shame after her stupidity is revealed.
But it will still cause lazy cowards among the populace to seek someone for president that is “not so controversial, or distracting from presidential duties”
How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?
Pat Buchanan— Where the Right Went Wrong
Trump Must Break Judicial Power
https://buchanan.org/blog/trump-right-trade-predators-125775
Remember if you get to the federal apelet court, that is where you can make the laws.
I think it may be time for America to give the rest of the world another lecture on fair elections and democracy. Oh! And on not holding political prisoners too.
You are right. But, it won’t happen…
“The need for control is a reaction to fear.”
If there was a mantra for the past eight years in our country, since the day Donald Trump came down the escalator, THIS would be it!! They simply cannot win based on logic, facts, or their powers of persuasion…therefore, they are left with bullying and stoking fear. That’s it – it’s all they have and it is not working anymore, hence the need to double down, IMHO!
The “need for control” is in their DNA. Always has been.
Indeed.
One can take the totalitarian out of control, but one cannot take the need of control out of the totalitarian.
The pedophilic left has no boundaries. They lie, cheat, and steal, no matter what official position they hold, nor what laws they should follow, nor what societal norms exist. Nobody is immune from leftists self-entitled tentacles, from the youngest victim to the President of the United States.
The only legal way to slow the march of the left is to take positions of power, and prosecute law breakers with the full extent of the law. No plea deals. Incarcerate them at an open air federal prison in Wyoming.
Such criminal prosecutions are appropriate, but I think it is highly unlikely that any jury would not contain at least one committed, leftist ideologue who would derail a guilty verdict.
If fascism ever comes to America, it will do so under the name of ‘liberalism’.
About time that any public official knowingly betraying the Constitution of the United States be forever barred from holding any public office, of course with appropriate Judicial Hearing. And those committing treason against the Constitution of the United States need to be sentenced as was done in the olden days, of course with appropriate Judicial Hearing…
Believe it not, there was a time in this Country, if any elected official (regardless of the tenure or position) did anything this outrageous and unconstitutional, come Monday morning, Impeachment Proceedings would be filed and that elected official would be gone and, in addition, that person would have to leave the state, because the animosity would be so damaging to the official, spouse, children, other relatives.
Life as it was known, would be completely over.
However, before any of that happened, the Attorney(s) having jurisdiction would have stepped in early on and told that elected official, under no circumstances, would that action be Constitutional, allowed and don’t even think about it.
That’s the difference today. They just opened wide a great big Pandora’s Box.
Stupid and ignorant is as stupid and ignorant does.
Super stupid.
Willfully ignorant.
They can try everything without concern or legal standing. It gets headlines around the entire country and that’s what matters. My wife got a news popup on her phone by a local “news” outlet. Pravda
You can literally smell the WEF puppet Kenyan, Hilldawg and their “Fundamental Transformation of America” cabal all over this ballot removal moves with the lowlife “State Representatives”.
BTW just for 💩’s and giggles, where is the “Republican” firebrand /s 🙄🤣🤣🤣 Senator Susan Collins statement condemning this unlawful, unconstitutional action in her state??? Oh, never mind. I know. She is just like my worthless RINO GOPe Senator Smelly Moore Capito, too busy kissing McCuckell’s stinking ass.
I was just in Maine, have family there and know the state very well: It’s far more Pro-Trump (as in MAGA) than these hacks would have you know.
Maine elected and LOVED Fmr Gov Paul LePage until he was term limited out.. sadly (we hated to see him go).
Paul LePage is one of the hugest Trump supporters out there!
So how does the state that did that then do what we see today?
We lost Maine to Rank Choice Voting in yet another slippery move by them.. and the state has been crashing ever since.
We’re duped by these Commies over and over again.. good people just don’t think like criminals and as a result, we never see it coming until we’re blindsided and caught breathless.
Why is no one talking more about the very glaring difference between what the culture of a state is, who the people really are when you are among them– and then what their politics looks like– the difference grows wider and wider and more obvious by the day.
We see this every single time Donald Trump easily packs the largest venue in town in supposedly ‘blue’ areas.
The level of the cheat is something that is very visible to eyes that can see.
If you know ‘your people’ you don’t even need to know these elections are being rigged and stolen because we can see it with our own eyes.. WE THE PEOPLE here look nothing at all like these goons running our states on stolen power.
You’d be stunned that even in very “Blue” Vermont there are more American flags and Trump flags than I’ve ever seen anywhere.
It’s as though they are trying to show us all that what we read about their state is NOT who they are at all.
And it’s true.. I’m here in this and see it every single day.
Our states are stolen through deep and cancerous corruption that poisons the elections as the disease spreads.
Every person in a position of power is one of them– and I’d say damn near all of them have been installed.
It’s a bleak situation but I remain hopeful.. we must.
Thanks for that in depth Truth NHnative.
Rank Choice Voting…Brad Raffensberger has talked about that coming into Georgia. As of this point, since so many trials are on-going over the 2020 steal, I have not read or heard anymore about perhaps bringing it into Georgia.
I hope Maine is working to end this communist takeover.
Oh, I am quite sure they used Ranked Choice Voting to cheat in Jared Golden for Maine’s Congressional District 2 House seat over Bruce Poliquin in 2018.
They did.
Howie Carr on Boston radio covered this race, the steal, and what Bruce did to attempt to claim the win that he WON.
I followed this very closely.
Bruce Poliquin is a good man.. what a loss.
People called into Howie’s show for weeks explaining that they had no idea at all how Rank Choice Voting worked, they botched the roll out- remember? So the people had no idea how to do this process correctly.
MANY people knew they’d not filled it out correctly.
This was the beginning of the end and it’s a new form of stealing these elections.
THIS is why they are pushing to use this more!
DO NOT ALLOW Rank Choice Voting in your state anywhere!
Pay attention, they sneak it in.
People in Maine didn’t even know how they even wound up with Rank Choice Voting!
Many people walked into the poll and saw this for the first time in their lives and had zero idea how to fill out the ballot!
I remember a fair bit of some of that.
I distinctly remember a petition needing voter signatures circulating for at least one election cycle prior to Ranked Choice Voting being put on the ballot. Probably had backers trying to pass it without success for some years prior, until they got it on the ballot for 2016 .
Voiding Fractional or “Ranked Choice Voting” appears to be battle number 1 in Maine.
Is there any move afoot for a ballot initiative to remove it?
Not one that I am personally aware of. Been busy most of 2023 making ends meet financially with a change of circumstances in life. Though, I do know people who likely would be involved.
Been busy most of 2023 making ends meet financially with a change of circumstances in life
Sounds familiar R F Burns. Even if difficult, perhaps a change of fortune spiritually?
My hat’s off to you for whatever you are going through.
Mills stole her election from Shaun Moony in deep blue Portland
Dear NHnative,
Spent many years raising our kids in NH. I hear you about ME & VT.
Have family & friends in both those states, as well as NH and MA.
You are correct, on all counts!
These states are misreported in MSM, well ok, maybe not MA.
Spent part of my summers in ME as a child and then as an adult as well. Also on Cape Cod.
From Kennebunkport to Wiscassett and beyond, ME is not Blue, nor is NH from Nashua to Colebrook.
There are many patriots in NE, but sadly the numbers voting don’t reflect that!
Hmmm. How could that be?
Everyone use your imagination… how could this happen? Gee whiz, huh, now I know you Treepers will come up with the answer!
Pretty sad state of affairs, no?
Been going on for decades 🙁
You are exactly right.
It’s small up here and after a lifetime, it’s very easy to know the whole of New England like the back of our hands and we do!
I drive around so often in town after town seeing all our young guys in their giant gas guzzler trucks covered in mud because they are Not interested in saving the planet at all.
And the full church parking lots on Sundays in this land of “Godless” people they say.. and I think to myself “Where are all these Democrats they claim we have??”
As you know, Ted Kennedy served for 47 years and yet not a single person in Massachusetts knows a soul that voted for him.
What we are saying is SO True, we know it.
Nothing at all is as they have said it is.
It’s all lies.. we SEE the lies.
The real deep seated issue, is how the Leftist Democrats 1) Willing break law and policy and procedure as part of a tantrum 2) Appear to have absolutely no concern of accountability. So what you have is chaotic lawlessness. These people are completely unfit for any kind of leadership.
They know SCOTUS will reverse this. They are probably hoping Ketanji Brown Jackson will dissent, and they’ll hang their “Trump is disqualified” argument on the slender reed of her arguments.
This is just to “dirty up” Trump and scare away independents and Democrats who might be thinking, “Biden’s so bad, maybe I should consider Trump…”
I suspect it is also intended the give the GOPe reason to contest a Trump nomination at the convention and get delegates to change their votes.
She will be hungry too. Though she will feel it later than most. Self destruction.
All into the light so they can burn from exposure. We all see these totalitarians. They chose wrong and wrong again
So, is there really any question now that KKKrooKKKed SoSs stole the last Presidential election, and every election since?
every time one of these states try to take trump off the ballot.abbott needs to send em about 50 bus loads of illegals.
Once the communists took over the govt education system, it was game over. If you truly love your children, get them the hell out of there and home school them tomorrow!
…or you can wait for them to turn you into the authorities for crimes against the state.
We are in farse territory now.🤦
Maybe some good can come from this and the sleeping folks in the state of Maine will finally wake up and realize that their state is being run by commies starting with s. collins.
Might be too late since they implemented rank-choice voting. It’s like the aftermath of Oregon going to mail-in voting; doesn’t matter what Republicans do, the cheat is baked into the process.
Democrats stick to the plan; they will cheat or cancel election whatever it takes and do what they are told to do.
Before I knew their names
And heard their wail and whinin’
I had a country and it had me
And the sun was always shinin’
But then they betrayed me
And left me far behind them
And now I’m lost, so gone and lost
Not even God can find me
I copied and pasted that in a search bar expecting a classic song lyric to come up. I thought I recognized something about it. Took a little doing but I found your muse. I was suprised. Very nicely done Listless
An egregious abuse of power. It’s so broad and so arbitrary on the legal merits that if allowed to stand, Republican officials would have more than enough cause to remove Joe Biden from the ballot in their states.
She, “removed” – obviously what’s actually going on here; just as with the Colorado Supreme Court ruling removing Trump from the ballot, Bellows stayed her own decision (meaning it doesn’t go into effect), giving the final say to the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s a tactic the Biden administration has used over and over, enacting illegal measures with an eye on passing the buck to the judiciary so they can cry foul, Supreme Court the bad guy .. when they lose.
None of these cheap stunts are meant to succeed technically. Another seeking 5 minutes of limelight – same category as those 3 witches Whitmer, Dana Nessel, Jocelyn Benson posing and dancing denying voters their right to vote,
According to Bellows, voting is a “fundamental right” – which is denied to all who would vote for a presidential candidate she holds an inherent hatred of. Yet another AWFL has decided to play authoritarian for the “greater good.”
One picture worth a thousand words ?
I’d be interested in ten of those words if they tell me what she’s doing in braces NOW. Why not before?
It’s telling that Biden is not interested in sniffing her..
She is north of the age of consent.
Lefty women all look the same.
Conservative women are beautiful. Us conservative guys win bigly.
I really don’t want to say this but this could escalate very quickly.
One person loses it and takes out one of these crazies and then in retaliation one from the
“other side” meets the same end. I am leaning towards this may be the actual intent of the behind the scenes instigators of these rash actions.
I suspect the FBI and others are desperately hoping for exactly that.
They are already claiming multiple death threats against the CO court, with zero evidence reported. I am sure they will claim the same against this ditz.
If someone does go off, they will use it to stomp hard on anyone and everyone questioning their actions.
This will continue and will eventually win because there is no consequence for Lawfare…
Be not afraid.
This is as God wills. Think about it. If President Trump had taken the White House in 2020, Nancy Pelosi would still have been in power, Pence would still be VP working against PDJT, the traitors would still be largely hidden from sight who are now exposed, the majority of people would never have appreciated the Trump economy or the Trump wall or the Trump foreign policy. The cheating of the Democrats would not have been exposed so completely. The criminal activity of the Biden and his Democrat sycophants would still be largely hidden.
In God’s time, President Trump will start with an all-new slate of officials working for him rather than against him with a much better idea of what needs to take place to put the US on a new path to prosperity and peace.
What a terrible price to pay for a silver lining in Trump’s not being President now.
Hundreds of American political prisoners. Over a thousand butchered Israelis. Millions of additional invaders across our “southern border”. Additional tens of thousands of drug deaths. Hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian and Russian troops.
There’s always a price to pay … silver lining or not. Surgery is messy for healing and restoration to occur. In everything we do or not do; what we achieve or not even tried. The real price to pay in any war is not money. There will always be loss in other forms as well. Time brings consequences justifiable or not; from what man ought to have done, ought not have done, should have or should not have done when there’s no natural necessity.
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every [a]purpose under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. ”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
And what you say is true too.
If we look through the lens of history we see so much suffering that seems inexplicable. WWII is one example. In the end, good prevailed… but the price was severe suffering and death, and so many were innocent victims. Jesus was innocent too and suffered in the extreme on
…. this earth … this vale of tears….
What you say is true. We do not know God’s Will nor His ways or timing. We just have to trust.
Amen
Bellows is the former Executive Director of the ACLU of Maine. She’s got a lengthy Wikipedia bio that hits all the right check-boxes. Her background is full of the usual leftist training, indoctrination, and former employment. Surely, she’s being groomed for higher office. My guess is, she has been “activated” by her political groomers.
Someone might want to screenshot or tag them for the wayback machine.
You know, in case the bios “mysteriously” disappears.
“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.”
Oh but, she wrote a 34 page OPINION and everything!
Me thinks her “opinion” could be written on the back of a book of matches – and hold the same value as a spent match from said book.
This woman really has a vendetta against President Trump. A former executive with the ACLU, a member of Senior Corps, which PDJT tried to cut in a FY 2020 budget overhaul to trim big, stupid government. She’s pro choice, Pro Same sex marriage, she’s a graduate of Middlebury College, a four year liberal playground, she supports Obama care. Seems to me that she is a seed planted by someone on a higher plane to destroy this country and its virtues.
Looks like Maine is going to be on the finacial hook for liable, and still have to put Trump on the ballot.
These silly, mediocre people, with their ridiculous notions about what it takes to be “in” weary me. She knows that this will not stand, but she feels “hip” and popular within the circles of her echo chamber having made the pointless gesture. She’s disgraced her office and HER position is now called into question.
Treason!
This! Let’s be clear. She has violated her oath of office and should be immediately removed. We have Treepers here that are from Maine. You should contact tour local DA to empanel a Grand Jury to investigate her immediately.
There will soon have to be one set of succinct Supreme Court rulings which put all of these challenges out to pasture. A “court” cannot decide who the entire population of a state is “allowed” to vote for. If they could, there would be only one name on every ballot.
This has been tried before.
The leftist hatred is sooo blinding, don’t they understand the more spotlight they put on PDJT, the more attentions he gets and his poll number increase?
This action is deserving of five hundred bus loads of illegal immigrants. Citizens of Maine take note and rid yourself of this freak.
Who wrote the “opinion” finding for her? Not to mention that the author can’t keep the challenges enumerated properly from one page to the next.
Prolly Norm Eisen or one of his flunkies.
additional exhibits were identified by intervenor CREW by email…
perhaps Norm assisted in more ways than just identifying exhibits
I wonder how many of the 34-pages she actually wrote herself?
Just the last page where she signs…after checking 20 times that she spelt her name right.
Psychotic virtue signaling.
I keep thinking of the PA case–a clear as day Constitutional violation–which the SCOTUS majority declined. Clarence Thomas warned that doing so would only lead to more of the same. And whaddya know. Here we are…
Somewhere in all of this it seems there should be some type of grounds for Trump to eventually sue her for taking away his civil right to run for political office.
Reminds me of this… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lee_(1882)