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Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs state authority to block former president
Sandiegouniontribune ^ | 12/28/2023 | NICHOLAS RICCARDI AND DAVID SHARP

Posted on 12/28/2023 4:04:51 PM PST by CaptainK

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.

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The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a December ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that booted Trump from the ballot there under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Colorado is a Democratic-leaning state that is not expected to be competitive for Republicans in November.

Bellows found that Trump could no longer run for his prior job because his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol violated Section 3, which bans from office those who “engaged in insurrection.” Bellows made the ruling after some state residents, including a bipartisan group of former lawmakers, challenged Trump’s position on the ballot.

1 posted on 12/28/2023 4:04:51 PM PST by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

How can they do this? It is getting even more disgusting on the Left.There must be a few Dems that can see this is wrong.


2 posted on 12/28/2023 4:06:33 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: CaptainK

Time once again to sink the Maine. /s


3 posted on 12/28/2023 4:07:00 PM PST by Dacula
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To: CaptainK

You Maine folks happy the democrat in office decided you can’t vote for who you want to? Just like the USSR/CCP politburo?

So you’re “free”, but not so free you can chose your leaders, right?


4 posted on 12/28/2023 4:07:52 PM PST by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: CaptainK

Trump was never going to be allowed to win. Even few elected Republicans are denouncing these actions.


5 posted on 12/28/2023 4:09:41 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: CaptainK

The only good thing in Maine is the Lobstermen and the Maine CabinMasters


6 posted on 12/28/2023 4:09:46 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: CaptainK

Every vote must count...except


7 posted on 12/28/2023 4:11:02 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: CaptainK

Bush Central, Kennebunkport is there.


8 posted on 12/28/2023 4:11:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dacula
...bipartisan group of former lawmakers

There is some honest reporting, right there. (/sarc)

9 posted on 12/28/2023 4:13:43 PM PST by frog in a pot (Colorado's decision is sample of what happened in key election state courthouses earlier.)
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To: CaptainK

https://www.salon.com/2014/04/07/americas_most_progressive_senate_nominee_meet_shenna_bellows_of_maine/


10 posted on 12/28/2023 4:19:13 PM PST by Brown Deer
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To: TornadoAlley3

Trump was never going to be allowed to win. Even few elected Republicans are denouncing these actions.

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It seems Republican politicians aren’t worried about their asses getting booted off of the ballots, nor do they care about what is happening to Trump.

However, they should be worried because the leftists want to kick about 150 to 200 Republicans out of Congress for supporting the ‘insurrection.’


11 posted on 12/28/2023 4:22:29 PM PST by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: CaptainK

It will be overturned this was done right after Colorado put him back on the ballot today… so they are accusing trump of trying to overturn himself because he was president at the time so he was trying to overturn himself good lord are some people beyond retarded


12 posted on 12/28/2023 4:22:40 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: devane617

They do it because they know they can and they know the GOP is a bunch of weak, feckless pu$$ies that will do NOTHING to combat this.


13 posted on 12/28/2023 4:22:46 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: McGavin999
The only good thing in Maine is...

IMO, the fresh daily seafood priced only slightly more than potatoes - and Old Orchard Beach, wide and flat and straight as an arrow, great for jogging.

14 posted on 12/28/2023 4:23:02 PM PST by frog in a pot (Colorado's decision is sample of what happened in key election state courthouses earlier.)
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To: CaptainK

“”Her decision came one day after Trump’s lawyers asked her to disqualify herself over tweets that they said showed bias. She called the U.S. Capitol attack an “insurrection” and bemoaned that Trump wasn’t convicted by the U.S. Senate after being impeached by the U.S. House.””

“bemoaned that Trump wasn’t convicted”

I suppose that was not relevant to her baseless attack on the former President.

Yet another insufferable prog commie.

PDJT was not arrested, there was no trial, no conviction, no nothing.

But her sorry butt “deemed” PDJT guilty.

.


15 posted on 12/28/2023 4:23:13 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Brown Deer

She sounds nuttier than AOC and that’s a hard thing to do.


16 posted on 12/28/2023 4:24:53 PM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: CaptainK

As a result of this illegal action, Maine will be stripped of all the states electoral votes.


17 posted on 12/28/2023 4:25:44 PM PST by Colo9250
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To: CaptainK

National boycott Maine lobster!


18 posted on 12/28/2023 4:25:56 PM PST by razzle9251
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To: CaptainK

assclown face of tyranny

19 posted on 12/28/2023 4:28:50 PM PST by Theophilus (It's far easier to rig a jury than an electionhe )
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To: devane617

They are arrogantly pushing the limits to get Trump. They live in a bubble of woke types all in agreement keeping him off is like getting a sex offender out of the neighborhood or something. All in agreement against him.

They will have to be shown what rage they are igniting within the other side’s adherents. So far nothing much.


20 posted on 12/28/2023 4:31:43 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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