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The Maine Democrat who moved to boot former President Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot visited the White House twice in the past year — meeting President Joe Biden during one jaunt — and reportedly once referred to the Electoral College as a “relic of white supremacy.” Secretary of State Shenna Bellows visited the White House in March and again in June, visitor logs show. On March 22, she attended a Women’s History Month event and took a photo with a smiling Biden, putting his left hand and on her shoulder and clutching one of her hands with...

The Maine official who moved to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday visited the White House this year to meet with President Biden and previously referred to the Electoral College as a "relic of white supremacy." On two separate occasions this year — once in March and another time in June — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, was invited to the White House, according to White House visitor logs. Bellows' first trip came after she was invited to attend a Women’s History Month event held on March 22 at...

VIDEOHOORAH FOR ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Watch as these two demented Democrats celebrate flat out ELECTION INTERFERENCE in Maine. They both conveniently forget that President Donald Trump has NOT been charged with insurrection yet both morons use that as justification for removing him from the ballot. They are about as STUPID (or demented) as the Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows who used the insurrection that Trump has NOT been charged with as an excuse to "remove" him from the state's primary ballot. "Remove" has been placed in quotes since Trump has NOT actually been removed from the ballot since this is...

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows unilaterally ruled that former President Donald Trump is unqualified to appear on the 2024 primary ballot despite lacking a law degree and substituting YouTube videos for due process. Bellows, who previously worked as Executive Director of the Maine Chapter of the ACLU but is not an attorney and did not attend law school, made the legal conclusion in her ruling that “the declaration on [Trump’s] candidate consent form is false because he is not qualified to hold the office of the President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The secretary of state, a...

Last week I wrote about how a good deal of former President Donald Trump's popularity is fueled by pure spite by the people whose lives have been damaged or made harder by the Biden administration's destructive policies. His popularity has risen in part because the Democrats have made it very clear to the American people that they fear Trump, and if the people who've made your life miserable are telling you that they're afraid of someone, you're probably going to gravitate toward that figure and attempt to put him between yourself and them: My theory is that as Biden and...

Given the compressed timeframe, the novel constitutional questions involved, the importance of this case, and impending ballot preparation deadlines, Secretary Bellows has suspended the effect of her decision until the Superior Court rules on any appeal, or the time to appeal has expired. A copy of the decision is here: https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2023/Decision%20in%20Challenge%20to%20Trump%20Presidential%20Primary%20Petitions.pdf

Bellows appeared on Regime friendly outlets like MSNBC and CNN after she unilaterally barred Trump from the ballot. Shenna Bellows told CNN that she suspended the effect of her decision to disqualify Trump from the ballot until the Supreme Court can act. She also suggested there may not be enough time to put Trump on the ballot. “We’re looking at a very tight time frame,” Bellows said CNN host: We are waiting to see if the Supreme Court will, in fact, take up this Colorado case. I know you mentioned the Colorado case in your decision. When you look at...

Not since Gavrilo Princips assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has the politically-motivated action of a single individual threatened to plunge an entire nation into strife and crisis like the decision by Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, to keep Donald Trump off of the state’s primary ballot. Does that sound like hyperbole? Allow me to explain. Donald Trump’s path to re-election in 2024 is simple: Hold the red states that he won in 2020, which he should do with ease, and win back the swing states of Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. That outcome would result with him receiving...

VIDEOWhat is the common demoninator of ALL leftwing fanatic women with political power? CRAZY EYES! Yes, they all have that same fanatic CRAZY EYES thing going on. The Maine Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, who is "Defending Democracy" by taking wildly popular President Trump off the Maine primary ballot is only the latest of the fanatic leftwing CRAZY EYES females to come to attention.Others include the former Minister of Truth, Nina Jankowizc, mentally disturbed doxxer Taylor Lorenz, deranged AOC, and the Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, who attempted the same stunt as her fellow CRAZY EYES Maine Secretary of...

Breaking News from Maine: Presidential hopeful banned from running in election Oh, no, wait, sorry, my mistake - that's Russia. In Maine, presidential hopeful Donald J Trump has also been banned from running in the election, but that's no reason to confuse a great "constitutional republic" such as the former Soviet Union with the United States. For one thing, both countries are rife with "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome", but in America its first symptom is not, as in Russia, that you find yourself accidentally falling out of an upper-floor window. Still, would you really be surprised to see it come...

Maine GOP Chairman Joel Stetkis tells @WGANMorningNews that Republicans are preparing a challenge to @shennabellows' decision in Maine Superior Court. They are also looking at converting Maine's GOP nomination to a caucus system. Lawmakers are also filing impeachment orders. 6:16 AM · Dec 29, 2023 · 8,224 Views

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) voiced his objection to the ruling by Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, to keep former President Trump off the primary ballot.That move should only have been made if Trump was convicted of a crime, the Democrat argued.“I voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection. I do not believe he should be re-elected as President of the United States,” Golden said in a statement posted on X. “However, we are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed...

Nixon White House attorney John Dean said Thursday he believes the Maine decision to remove former President Trump from the ballot will be difficult to overturn, calling it “very solid.” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) determined late Thursday that Trump should be kept off the state’s primary ballot because his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots violated the 14th Amendment. Dean denounced criticism by the Trump campaign, which called the decision “election interference.” “There was ample due process in this proceeding, and they just lost by a straight, honest reading of the 14th Amendment,” Dean said...

“The idea that one bureaucrat in an executive position can simply unilaterally disqualify someone from office, that turns on its head every notion of constitutional due process that this country has always abided by for over 200 years,” “I don’t think that this ultimately will be legally sustained by the US Supreme Court. But I do think that this is going to be a constant throughout the election year, where there’s going to be different parts of these legal cases that are going to be front and center,” DeSantis said.

Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on Thursday disqualified former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, citing the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. -snip “I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred,” Bellows wrote in her 34-page decision on multiple complaints challenging the 77-year-old Trump’s eligibility for the primary ballot in Maine based on his actions leading up to and during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. “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. I...

As RedState reported, another state has "removed" Donald Trump from the ballot following accusations of violating the 14th Amendment. I put the word "removed" in quotes for a reason, which I'll get to in a moment, but in the aftermath, the Maine Secretary of State behind the move is getting destroyed. I'll start with a more official-sounding condemnation from Sen. Thom Tillis before we get to the less kind responses.Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State just removed Trump from the ballot. This is an egregious abuse of power and why I will be introducing the Constitutional Election Integrity Act as soon...

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally in a decision that has potential Electoral College consequences. While Maine has just four electoral votes, it’s one of two states to split them. Trump won one of Maine’s electors in 2020, so having him off the ballot there should he emerge as the Republican general election candidate could have outsized implications in a race that is expected to be narrowly decided.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has decided Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot.

Former President Trump on Wednesday demanded the Maine secretary of state recuse herself from her upcoming decision on the former president’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment, citing her past statements about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Unlike other states, where plaintiffs have sued over Trump’s eligibility in court, Maine’s system first allows the secretary of state to weigh in. Challengers can then appeal in state court. In response to three petitions challenging Trump’s ballot eligibility, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, is set to issue a decision in the coming days.

Maine’s highest court has ruled that Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will not appear on the 2024 ballot after his campaign failed to gather enough certified signatures from registered voters. The decision stems from an appeal brought by Christie’s campaign in response to a previous decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows that he did not gather the necessary 2,000 certified signatures. Bellows claimed that the Christie campaign turned in just 844 signatures. “We appreciate that the court upheld the integrity of Maine’s well-established ballot access requirements,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in a statement. “Every candidate, including...