2024 is a presidential election year and it’s going to be one for the history books. It’s already gone south because Donald Trump lives rent-free in the heads of the progressive Marxists who make up half our country. We’ve descended into flat-out brazen and legally questionable tactics in the political sphere when it comes to the Left’s attempts to keep Trump off the ballot in this year’s presidential election.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, announced Thursday evening that she is blocking Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot based on false claims that Trump incited an insurrection against the United States.
She’s a Democrat? You don’t say.
“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 decision. “I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection. The oath I swore to uphold the Constitution comes first above all, and my duty under Maine’s election laws, when presented with a Section 336 challenge, is to ensure that candidates who appear on the primary ballot are qualified for the office they seek.”
This deeply partisan political hack wraps herself in her “duty” to “uphold the constitution” by deciding on her own that Trump engaged in insurrection, even though he’s not been accused, tried or convicted of such. Who could have imagined that a Democrat would abuse her authority to engage in a partisan smear tactic while shielding herself from criticism with the noble intentions of her office? Not me!
“The events of January 6, 2021 were unprecedented and tragic,” Bellows continued. “They were an attack not only upon the Capitol and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law. The evidence here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing President. The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and [Maine law] requires me to act in response.”
What “evidence” is she referring to? Is she now judge, jury and executioner?
This is naked election interference that we saw first in Colorado when their Supreme Court barred Trump from the ballot, then in Michigan where their Supreme Court rejected that effort, and now in Maine.
Bellows is right that this is unprecedented—it’s unprecedented lawlessness.
And it should be overturned in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Agree! This is lawfare as you have said. This needs to be overturned.
Good morning Dave, and then she wonders why people are upset enough to threaten her. First of all, I don’t condone violence of any kind, but if you can lie about the reasons for keeping Trump off the ballot, then it’s not a stretch that you lied about being threatened. Oh those MAGA’s are so violent and crazy.😏You are right in saying that this year is going to one for the history books. Buckle up !