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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So, they fix elections in Maine also. Didn’t realize that. How Do these people get elected….fixed☑️
these lawfare practitioners need to be investigated for corruption, conflicts of interest, malpractice and mis-administration and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the constitutional republic
But, who can be truly trusted to do the investigating?
No one. Not the media, certainly not .gov.
It’s why we come here. Thank you, all who make this site.
Straight from the leftist handbook.. “overwhelm the system”… Theyre trying to spread Trump’s legal team thin in hopes they’ll miss something. Notice how these “events” are spaced out in time ..
Just call the West VA mountain men in vigilante justice will work….
While I appreciate the sentiment, I can’t resist remembering it was some school teacher from Maine that stopped the Virginian at a place called little round top.
Just remembering things, that’s all.
But that school teacher wasn’t a democrat.
The SOS needs to be taken to court using: “42 USC 1983: Civil action for deprivation of rights;
Hold the SOS Legally liable for her actions. When it starts costing these politicians money out of their own pocket, they’ll stop violating our constitutional rights.
Mainer here…we have no voter id law, same day voter registration, use the ERIC system to maintain/or not, the voter registration roles and the Democommies control the state House, Senate and Governorship, who passed the most liberal abortion bill this past summer…despite over ten hours of testimony by Mainers who opposed it. I’m told the Dems used strong arm tactics to get that heinous bill passed. This state is no longer of the people, by the people, for the people. This is the same party that has brought you Sen. Susan Colllins. I have attended local GOP meetings…zero talk of election integrity, so just more of the hapless uniparty here in Maine. Maine…the way life should not be.
I wonder how long will you Mainelanders will suffer before you rise up and deprive your tyrants of due process of law?
Everyone should be able to play the chaos game.
Given the facts I listed in my previous post, how exactly do we rise up to take the action you suggest? It took Liberty Council to take on a lawsuit against the state of Maine for the vax mandate. No “Mainelander” did it.
Correct. Make them prove you’re depriving them of due process while they simultaneously go bankrupt, lose their jobs, their lives, and their families.
Oh, how could I have forgotten? Darn! When the shoe is on the other foot, judges become staunch defenders of due process (because it’s for libs only, doncha know), and then they castigate ferociously those with the effrontery to try to deny these essential rights.
They also broaden and adjust their judicial prism of acceptable behavior while stretching laws to suit their needs in order to extricate a lib from legal jeopardy.
Judicial immunity is not required by the Constitution, and I’ve read that it was passed into a statute that also covers prosecutors.
In the end, it must be nice to be a judge and to take off entire summers, or to be a congressman with months off during the year.
I don’t believe a president can ever close his shop for business. There is no vacation per se for him. And maybe it’s that extra free time that allows congressmen and judges to gather socially-free from the worries of their duties- to air their concerns and to pledge mutual cooperation and fealty (and, oh yes, thanks for that beautiful gift and letter!). After all, they’ve been in their save offices for years, and each has useful powers the other doesn’t have.
So at some point, the issue of judicial immunity must have arisen on some beach in the Hamptons as friendships and trust deepened, because Congress did decide that their close friends in black robes needed and deserved immunity, and, who knows, maybe those black robes could reciprocate by adopting rulings favorable to certain congressional factions.
I’ve written now repeatedly that term-limiting the President, which cut against the original concept of constitutional parity, was done to weaken the presidency-not to protect the Nation- and lo and behold, here we are. How can both branches have immunity and the third does not?
My response to that is that a president doesn’t enjoy the luxury of time, or freedom from duty, year after year, to shmooze with judges and congressmen about concerns that would be particular to the Office of the Presidency. If he had, he could have, over time, achieved what the others actively lobbied to obtain.
I suggest a reconsideration of immunity for some but not for all!
Trump’s legal team has argued, and I wholeheartedly agree, that presidential immunity, for acts undertaken during a presidency, is rooted constitutionally in the separation of powers itself. But regrettably, judges become maddeningly narrowminded when issues may favor conservatives, and stupidly broadminded when they might favor libs.
Canadian infiltration and mass immigration along with D.I.E. ( a European/EU construct) has been ushered into Maine and other border states as We watched our southern border.
Treaties aren’t all about trade.
since dems / Lawfare devotees can never win an election via the current electoral system, let me count thy ways… mail-in ballots, phantom ballots, multiple voting, dead bodies voting, compensation for votes, ballot stuffing, voting machine hacking, ranked choice voting, removing an opposing candidate from the ballot by fiat
rumor, you only scrathed the surface.
And you ignored VOTER SUPPRESSION, which is AT LEAST as impactful as the various forms of ballot fraud you list.
Because it got passed the initial roadblocks like standing, the 2022 election challenge in Maracopa County is particularly instructive.
Yes, we know they injected 35,000 phantom ballots on election day.
However, by installing malware in the machines that would be used in KL districts, ON ELECTION DAY when they knew KL voters would insist on voting, a good estimate is that they sippressed the vote of at least 48,000 KL voters.
The final tally only had Hobbs up by 17,000 votes.
So you see, without the voter suppression, the phantom ballots alone would NOT have been enough to steal a ‘win’ for Hobbs.
Far too many focus on fake ballots, not enough focus on voter suppression.
Recommendations in IL are to vote early as possible to avoid that scenario.
And nowhere near enough focus on EITHER
Democrats have confirmed cheating works well for them, but no one of any consequence is on board to stop it
In my little town of 400 people in Western Maine, we still use only paper ballots and they go into a wooden box that has a slot in the top and a padlock. The silver haired volunteers who work at the poll, count the ballots by hand. The only chance for fraud is in the sending of election data to the county via the internet where the data could be changed.
I agree, elsewhere it is all electronic with paper ballots being scanned into the system.
Mail in ballots are sent out via a request from the voter, not via a mass mailing to everyone on the voter role. Two cities in Maine…Portland and Lewiston,…are home to over 10,000 illegals brought here by Catholic Charities mostly, along with two other NGOs. The Maine GOP has shown little initiative in cleaning up voter roles and other election integrity initiatives.
Excellent perspective
By Any Means Necessary – BAMN!
Wonder why that became the main pillar of the most notorious supporters of illegal activities?
Why pedophelia along with their political and social stances??
They represent ALL evils; also known as MAMbLA…….it’s all about love don’t ya know?
God Help US
Illegal is better than legal and they will use any means necessary to attain that goal……the outcome is an upside down world. Dehumanization is also accomplished.
No Jan 6 defendant has been charged, let alone convicted, of insurrection.
Mr. Trump has never been charged or convicted of insurrection.
I think the Republican voters in Maine need to sue this Secretary of State for infringing on their civil right to vote for their preferred candidate, and for election interference.
Exactly! They are hoping to see the whites of our eyes so they can shoot.
It really feels like these people are trying to goad the right into taking some extreme action with the thought that this will give them the justification with the general public to actually crack down on Americans like they’ve always dreamed of doing, but can’t because a thousand or so nuts NEED the people to at least be tacitly okay with their actions.
Right now playing it cool and going through the legal channels is frustrating their main goal… they want to be victims, but in playing by the rules it just highlights every claim by President Trump that the Left really IS out to get him and knows they can’t win if the people actually get their choice of who to vote for.
Martial law would probly cancel the election…. Like Zelensky did in Ukraine.
Elections were held during the Civil War.
Yup and their first response to any of their evil, is total gun confiscation, and after that, the Gates of Hell will open and smile.
Yep.
This is the time to be patient and wait upon the Lord.
This is the trap. They want the supreme court to say that because hes innocent until proven guilty he can’t be kept off the ballot. Then boom they convict him in a kangaroo court. Then like little kids they’ll be yelling at SCOTUS You said! You said!
Well then, they first have to charge him with insurrection and that hasn’t happened to this point. They’d have to use the Sedition Act passed two hundred years ago as the basis for the prosecution. That has never been used so again, novel Lawfare attempt that again the SCOTUS will probably slap down since nobody has ever been prosecuted under that law. And again, it would reek of desperation to be grasping at obscure laws to try to Get Trump. More free PR for the Trump campaign and less room for any other candidate to be heard. I know that the Left wants Trump to be the GOP nominee, but the old adage “be careful for what you wish for, because it might come true”.
Oh you mean like the Bush family that has a compound in Kennebunkport and gives thousands to the children’s hospital for gender changing surgery? (s)
Look at a map of Maine showing the two congressional districts. CD#1 is a sliver along the coast and that is wealthy blue country….home of the McMansions that house the libtards who support the elite globalist agenda with a lot of residents from other libtard states.
Maine CD#2 is the rest of the state who voted for Trump in both his elections. That part of Maine is not wealthy, in fact there is much poverty…shut down paper mills, shut down shoe factories, lots of legal pot shops and illegal drugs.
When the democommie Governor enacted c-19 vaccine mandates for all healthcare workers, including EMTs, the money to create a lawsuit against the state came via Liberty Counsel. I’m not sure the in-state Republicans have the backbone or financial means to sue the SOS.
Thanks, didn’t think about the shrub mafia connection.
And the CO connection.
I’d be happy to contribute towards financing suchlike a lawsuit, if one of the Conservative legal groups will tackle it.
Wait …………. they did it again. Just like the Colorado supreme court ruling she has suspended her decision pending appeal. This means Trump is still on the Maine ballot.
Its all for HEADLINES, and has no actual consequential impact on the elections.
It gives the BSM, formerly MSM a chance to say “Trump” and “Insurection” in the same sentence, yet again.
It has no MEANING, its not REAL.
I agree but I think there is something more sinister going on . A major distraction to install their cheat very much like the Zuckerbucks fiasco of 2020.
I’d guess an attempt at mass voter suppression by saying Trump can’t win due to X or Y when that’s going to be a lie.
relevant article at this link. It explains who is behind the ban Trump on the ballot movement. Many thanks to the mods for allowing us to post links to other websites!!!! Not a lot of bloggers allow that!!!
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/29/erasing-trump-from-2024-ballot-is-an-inside-the-beltway-job/
If true then they are hoping to do enough PR damage in driving voters away from Trump and toward Nikki so that Trump will be hobbled.
But it is all free PR for Trump, plus he gets to play the victim/underdog card. Americans love underdogs and if Trump wins, he’ll be only the second person to win non-consecutive terms as President, joining only Grover Cleveland with that distinction.
Another intellectually deficient amoeba, pushing the lie of an insurrection. The insurrection much like the biden being elected president, it never happened.
But the good news is that a GOP SoS can then examine Democrat candidates and if they participated in either BLM or Antifa riots, they now have the legal pathway to ban them from the ballot. I personally do not like this, but the Democrats changed the rules, so now we make them live by them. Scrutinize every media appearance of every Democratic candidate in Colorado, Maine, Georgia and if they ever joined a BLM or Antifa riot, or expressed support for them, (like all of those dippy House Democrats who kneeled with Kente cloths around their necks for a photo op) then they are fair game to be removed for insurrection.
Pushing the insurrection lie, or trying to incite an insurrection by their actions.
Voters need to sue these Secretaries of State for infringing on their civil right to vote for their chosen candidate, taxpayers need to sue them for willfully wasting taxpayer money and voters need to check out the website:
Bondsforthewin
to see if the same strategy that can remove school board members can be used to remove Secretaries of State.
This vile creature in Maine will have to backtrack bigtime. President Trump remains on the ballot in Colorado.
Would this be something an enterprising lawyer could create a civil rights lawsuit against the Maine SoS? Or would a class action lawsuit be a possibility?
Depriving 294K registered republican voters in Maine of the opportunity to vote for Donald Trump during the primary should be a violation of their civil rights. Exposing these rouge officials to legal consequences may be the only remedy.
Rouge rogues are the worst.
Better dead than rouge.
This is bigger than an election, bigger than just our Country. This is Global now and there’s no putting the Genie back in the bottle. This is the Epic Battle of Good vs. Evil. Stand your ground. Stand with God.
they’re gonna keep doing this until one sticks. Over an over again. That’s all they need. Not holding my breath, but if by some miracle DJT ends up in the Whitehouse next year, I’d love to see every last US Attorney fired and replaced with fire-breathing right wingers who go after the entire democrat party (and its benefactors) with rico statutes.
Actually every US Attorney submits their resignation when a new administration comes in. Most of the time some get to stay on, but most get replaced. Remember the squawking that came from the Left when Trump accepted all of the resignations and replaced all of the US Attorneys. That fizzled out when it was pointed out that Bill Clinton did the same when he was elected to his first term.
This seems like an attempt to bankrupt President Trump. All these bogus lawsuits are costing millions maybe even billions of dollars in legal fees while these commies use taxpayer money to bring these suits. This is so unfair and these people who bring these lawsuits should be held personally responsible for these bogus lawsuits. But I suppose when your spending other peoples money you will do everything you can to get your way.
I really hate these people. If personal character were gasoline, they couldn’t drive a pissant’s go kart two laps around a Cheerio. I pray her karma’s a beeyatch, she certainly is.
The people in their Blue states using lawfare to persecute Trump forget one thing. Trump will remember which states did it, and, when reelected, these states will find the Trump administration will do them no favors. Want illegal immigrants while we process their deportation? You got them, by the hundreds of thousands. Want to keep federal offices in your state? Bye bye. Need disaster relief? Your problem. Add to the list if you think of better ideas.
While I agree with your sentiment, this approach only costs taxpayers. The expense of upkeep for illegals is funded by taxpayers.
Yeah, but for the local taxpayers only. Then the businesses in the locale can implement E-Verify and once the jobs dry up for the illegals, they will go home by themselves or at least welcome deportation. Sundance’s article on who he favors for various Cabinet positions hinges on whether that person will root out the lefty bureaucrats and take an axe to the federal government.
He may retaliate against the individuals, but it’s not like Trump to punish the people.
There are no blue states, just blue cities oppressing red counties.
Perhaps Mx. Bellows needs a refresher on the law and stuff after her Fascist/tragic determination regarding Mr. Trump’s right to appear on the GOP primary ballot in Maine. She either needs to visit Sen. Fetterman’s neurologist to regain her cranial function, or perhaps a concerned citizen might send her the following link:
Are they self-aware? The same people who are persecuting their political rivals and interfering in the 2024 election process …
are the same people who shout you down, insisting the 2020 election was perfectly hunky dory.
Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
Maine Secretary of State claims that the reason Trump needed to be legally removed from the ballot was because “If his name was on the ballot, there’s a good chance people would have voted for him.”
11:09 PM · Dec 28, 2023
I would be incandescent if I lived in a state that removed a candidate from a ballot for obvious political reasons. Or any illegal reason. In fact I’m pretty angry they are doing this at all. Destroying the Country.
It’s an obvious abuse of power.
Our Sec of State here in Oregon did not go down this path although she was/is being pressured by 16 of the most radical groups in the state. She’s a bonified true blue leftist. But she wrote that she believed it was not within her power, as one person, to make that decision. Hope that holds. I can’t afford to move right now.
The treasonous ones have revealed themselves here.
These “Much Ado About Nothing” messages will continue to pour down on us often and for a very long time!
Once upon a time, television weatherman Phil Connors traveled to Punxsutawney, PA, for his coverage of “Groundhog Day” festivities at Gobbler’s Knob. After Phil realised that he is in a loop listening to “I Got you Babe” playing at the old fashioned clock radio in his Cherry Street Inn’s guest room at 6am days after day, he took advantage that his actions will have no consequences.
Anyone who has used access to news in the last four years should not have failed to notice that there are many forces that want to prevent President Trump’s re-candidacy by dishonest means. And anyone with any reasonably common sense should realize that efforts to remove DJT first from the ballot of the Republican primaries [1] and then from the ballots of general election will have no chance of success.
Within all these “rulings” there is an escape clause according to which these “is banned” decisions ceases to have effect if a supreme court takes up (not REVIEW) the case. Let’s the clock running…
The much more interesting question is this: How do voters respond to these concerted actions? Since the desired J6 narrative will not be maintained until the election takes place, this plays into President Trump’s hands.
And then there is [2] Fair Fight v. True the Vote trial (Case No. 2:20-cv-0302-SCJ), with
[1] Shenna Bellow erred, right now, DJT is NOT “Republican Candidate” for POTUS
[2] Court suit against Georgia’s law that allows mass voter challenges nears judge’s ruling – Georgia Recorder
[3] Catherine Engelbrecht – Affidavit – Secretary of State (open.ink)
[4] Fair Fight v. True the Vote (justice.gov)
[5] The Aftermath | Open.Ink
No Presidential candidate has engaged in insurrection huh, I believe quite a few of the first ones kinda did.
Point of order, just sayin
If the totalitarian left thought they could win on substance, policy, ballot fraud or voter suppression, they would not resort to these lawfare tactics.
Yes, they are trying the throw everything against the wall, in the hope something sticks, still we can clearly see outlines of their overall plan, and that that plan is FAILING.
And the flop sweat is pouring off them. Read Hakim Jefferies tweet, it does not sound like someone confident of winning, its more like someone who knows they are going to lose this contest (2024 Presidential contest) but vowing they will continue the fight.
And why bother passing legislation preventing a POTUS from withdrawing from NATO, if you are confident you can “just steal it, again.”?
NOT saying they won’t TRY, and not saying WE don’t still need to continue to fight the cheaters at every level , on every front.
Am saying THEY know the limits of what they can do, and are preparing for PDJT to win.
Or are they continuing in the attempt to provoke a violent response from the “radical extreme white-supremist” on the “right”? Would that give them the “justification” to impose the totalitarian control that is an intended part of the agenda? Will they be willing to stage a false-flag event to provide the “necessary justification”?
Leading Report
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Maine State Rep. John Andrews has filed a request for a joint order to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows following her efforts to remove former President Trump from the ballot.
11:03 PM · Dec 28, 2023
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Which of course will go no where in their Uniparty legislature.
Mr. Andrews knows this and is quite “safe” in making this “strongly worded” pronouncement and using it for election fund raising!
I just wanted to be left alone but U democrat tyrants cant let me be, so be it,WHAT JOHN BROWN SAID
The Democrats engaged in insurrection… now they cant be on the ballot…
“If it feels good do it” “The ends justify the means” ” Stick it to the man”
These demons have no rules and have been telegraphing their intent for 50+ years “Rules for Radicals” Saul Alinsky. The bottom line, anything goes. They want the USA dead especially you and I and left alone will do exactly that and will not shed a tear and off to the orgy or child mutilation.
The good news, it ain’t working. They’ve wrested the helm away from the people via fraud isolating themselves and now stick out like a sore thumbs see Sheena Bellows. They do not have the consent of the governed, at some point, enough will be enough and this will end.
This is nothing but Chaff & Countermeasures, this demon is doing her masters bidding.
They all obey the laws of physics.
The fact is and will always remain there was never an “insurrection” in the first place.
The only way they are going to stop us from voting for Trump is to not have an election.
Nothing strategic busing can’t eventually solve!
Beautiful state Maine. Too bad the gov’t there has been hiding for decades their issues with Lyme Disease. Bad for tourism.
This can get repealed tomorrow, but it will be the headlines and MSM talking points that the normies will remember. It is all for propaganda psyop.
Some call it fear and that’s true, but the act itself is one of sheer desperation, breaking all standards of proper governance, because they know that their agenda may be coming to an end.
Check the bank accounts of these corrupt politicians to see who is paying them to violate the Constitution.
Why not? Whether its one, two, or more if you got a law degree even through a mail order catalog, you seem to have the right to become all knowing, all saying, all powerful over the little people of this nation.
It’s a very frustrating fact to acknowledge that there are so many silly, petty, stupid numb nuts that occupy critical positions in government all across our country.
But.. but.. but.. I thought she said no one person should make decisions of that import? I guess the rules vary depending upon what your politics are…
The need to control is also a reaction to the appetite for absolute power. Those who deliberately inflict pain, distress and chaos are sadists. Exercises in demonstrating who is in charge. All for the pleasure of those in control.
This isn’t going to even slow down, is it?
I fear bloodshed might be the final solution
But the upside is that this is all free advertising for Trump – it sucks the oxygen out of the room for all the other candidates on both sides of the aisle. Yes, he has to pay lawyers to fight this, but it all keeps Trump in the public eye and with these bureaucrats making quasi-legal judgements, that are all going to be overturned by the US Supreme Court. Additionally, it unmasks the Democrat Party as a bunch of totalitarians who cannot accept dissent and opposing political parties.
And as Sundance says, it indicates that the Left knows that they are losing and without an October Surprise, the election may be a bigger landslide than when Trump beat Hillary (and let’s face it, that was a massive landslide win, just as Trump stated he “schlonged” her).
–“…without an October surprise…”…
Me thunks with all the early voting and mail out ballots the “surprise” now needs to produced in early September to have much of an effect.
President Trump AND the amercans they have in jail HAVE NOT BEEN CONVICTED OF INSURRECTION! Why do these DUMB A$$ leftist try to keep LIEING and pushing those lies down our throats? Geezzz
Maybe because they can and it seems to be an effective propaganda/narrative to sway the sheeple!?!
Again I ask……has Trudeau taken Maine and other border states?? Are north American treaties to unite the 3 in more ways than trade??
Great Britain is no longer great and no longer Britain/UK; reacquisition of the US could be accomplished by their D.I.E. sent across the ocean AND mass immigration.
The wars that have been fought because of that aristocracy are once again rearing their ugly heads IMHO. We are not English We are American……..
God Help US
Time to declare Independence yet again??
I’m really tire of living under these Fascists.
Most democrats are morally emotionally and mentally bankrupt and have disengagement from reality syndrome, along with TDS….. deadly combo bye losers..
But but but Shanna Bellows said it should not be up to one person to make decisions about who gets to vote, and for whom. Maine needs to get their thugocrats all singing the same lyrics.
Is the fix in at the Supreme Court? They seem to want this to be decided by the court. Hello John Roberts
Insufferable actions. Best keep up with prayers. They will never stop. Never give in. Grow closer to God.
You are free to vote for whoever you want as long as it is someone who the elites say can be on the ballot
Eventually she will get what is coming for ALL FILTHY LIBERALS
Then she can personally feel the destruction blowback while she burns in Hell with the rest of THE FILTHY LIBERALS.
I wonder, couldn’t Andrew Jackson’s inauguration party at the White House been considered an insurrection? The White House was entered, property was damaged, fights broke out, the liquor cabinet was broken into, yet it was written off as a celebration.
I’m amazed every day about the courage and strength shown by President Trump. He truly is one of the most important national treasures our country has ever produced.
I couldn’t do it. Truly remarkable.
Hello Susan Collins, not a freaking peep from the disgusting GOPe RINO!