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The Maine Event: Shenna Bellows Runs for Governor on Unconstitutional Effort to Bar Trump from Ballot
Jonathanturley.org ^ | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 04/08/2026 2:18:09 PM PDT by thegagline

Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is actually running for governor on her willingness to take flagrantly unconstitutional action. Bellows is touting her removal of Trump from the ballot, an effort that led to a unanimous Supreme Court swatting down Colorado and Maine. Bellows is virtually giddy recounting her efforts to stymie democracy and prevent voters from casting their ballots for the man who ultimately won the election.

Democrats have been running this year on the pledges to launch a virtual roundup of Trump officials and supporters for investigations and impeachments. New York congressional candidate George Conway is pledging to change impeachment rules to secure the removal of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. However, Bellows, the former ACLU executive director in Maine, is parading her willingness to do things barred by the Constitution.

Campaigning on an unconstitutional act rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court (including three liberal justices) truly captures this age of rage. It is the equivalent to how mobsters “make their bones” by whacking someone. Bellows is effectively saying that she was willing to do what other Democrats were unwilling to do: violate the Constitution.

Shenna Bellows has long embraced extreme political and historical viewpoints, including denouncing the electoral college as a “relic of white supremacy.” Bellows also declared that voter ID laws are “rooted in white supremacy.” ***

As Bellows relished the national attention for her consideration of cleansing the ballot,*** Ironically, Bellows never got very far in her effort. A superior judge enjoined her, and she repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to get the matter before a higher court. In other words, it did nothing but generate publicity for Bellows and was an utter failure that ended in the 9-0 loss in the Colorado case.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; authoritarian; fascist; jonathanturley; maga; maine; shennabellows; unconstitutional
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Again and again and again…

Shenna Bellows (Maine Secretary of State-Ordered Trump off the ballot )

Senator Blumenthal said the ICE agents will shoot and kill families at the airports.

Mayor Jacob Frey (Told ICE to Get the f--- out of Minneapolis; odered the police not to protect ICE agents who were being assaulted)

Brandy Shufutinsky, (director of the Education and National Security Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Both groups are fomenting violence against ICE)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman- Schultz( co-sponsored legislation to remove Trump from the ballot; stated that Trump is a larger threat to America than Islamic terrorists; blamed increased antisemitism on young White men),

Jeffrey Goldberg (dual US-Israel citizen, former member of the Israel Defense Forces, leaked classified Signal meeting details in possible controvention of the the Espionage Act and the Official Secrets Act)

Marc Elias( over 60 lawsuits attacking voter ID laws),

Merrick Garland

Jena Griswold (Colorado Secretary of State, ordered Trump off the ballot ),

George Soros,

Reid Hoffman (financial support for E Jean Carroll),

Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin( financing the violent attacks against Tesla),

Judge David Ezra (stayed Texas law that permitted the arrest of illegals ),

Alejando Mayorkas,

Norm Eisen (152 lawsuits and counting against the Trump Administration)

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (Called for mass mobilization and disruption against Republicans-“These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.”

Senator Michael Bennet (Blocked 80 Trump nominees)

Senator Elissa Slotkin (Impeachment, “war plan” against Trump)

Senator Chuck Schumer (Called for Trump 45 and 47 impeachment)

Senator Jon Ossoff (Called for Trump to be impeached in 2025)

Adam Schiff ( impeachment, evidence of Russian collusion)

Rep. Laura Friedman (colluding with state AGs to engage in lawfare against Trump)

Senator Brian Schatz (Holding up over 300 of Trump’s nominations )

Rep. Jamie Raskin ( threatened foreign governments that support Trump, co-sponsored legislation to keep Trump of the ballot)

Senator Chuck Shumer (led government shutdown in an attempt to preserve benefits for illegals; multiple threats against Trump)

Rep. Sara Jacobs (Congress- Bill to defund DOGE)

Organizers and funders of Not a King/ Anti-ICE protests:

George Soros

Alex Soros

Marc Benioff

Marc Zuckerberg

Hansjörg Wyss

Leah Greenberg,

Ezra Levin

Robert Weissman

, Donna Lieberman

Randi Weingarten

U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg (denied the Trump administration’s request to reconsider the legality of two subpoenas targeting the Federal Reserve, after he blocked them last month. ;holding the Trump Administration in contempt for not returning the plane full of Venezuelan gang members; injunction against deportation of Venezuelan gang members ; released a person who threatened to disembowel the president ; ordered that members of the Tren de Aragua gang who were previously deported must be returned to the United States at taxpayers expense.; blocks Trump Administration from Jerome Powell

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (Order Trump to reinstate immigrationstatuus of hundreds of thousands of otherwise illegals who were granted waivers under the Biden Administration; Blocked Trump from canceling Harvard’s student visa program, student visa holder’s unfettered access to the United States; ordered Trump to restore 2.2 billion dollar funding to Harvard)

Judge Karin Schwartz (ordered the reinstatement of commercial drivers licenses to illegals, refugees, and asylum seekers)

U.S.District Judge Michael Farbiarz (Blocked Trump from deporting Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas agitator)

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer (Ordered Trump to end California Guard deployment in Los Angeles; Ruled that the National Guard cannot be used to protect federal officers engaging in immigration enforcement; Ordered Trump to immediately turn over control of the National Guard to Gavin Newsom)

Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that Trump must fund the far left Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell ( Impeachment, January 6th, ordered no warrantless arrests illegals etc),

U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg (holding the Trump Administration in contempt for not returning the plane full of Venezuelan gang members; injunction against deportation of Venezuelan gang members ; released an individual who threatened to disembowel the president )

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ( approved FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-lago residence

U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan (Presided over the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case; ordered Trump to release funds to NYC that were withheld because NYC is a sanctuary city)

U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss (Suspended our national border)

U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman (blocked Trump from defunding/punishing the NY MTA over congestion pricing)

U.S. District Judge Hellerstein (Blocked Trump from deporting illegal alien gang members under the Aliens Enemies Act)

U.S. District Court Judge Adam Abelson, (injunction against Trump terminating DEI grants and programs )

U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, (twice rejectedTrump’s effort to move his hush money criminal case from New York state court to federal court)

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander ( Blocked DOGE from accessing Social Security Administration records)

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer(Injunction DOGE Dept of Treasury, referred to Trump as a tyrant),

Judge Arthur Engoron (NY civil fraud case- levied $350,000,000 fine on Trump)


1 posted on 04/08/2026 2:18:09 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Mark Zuckerberg...heh


2 posted on 04/08/2026 2:31:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: thegagline

These people would generously send MAGA off to concentration camps.

For our own protection of course.


3 posted on 04/08/2026 2:33:02 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

These folks need to be reminded there are 25M AR15 in the US……..and their side owns very few of them. Their rage can be dealt with in lots of ways


4 posted on 04/08/2026 2:36:27 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: thegagline
The 19th amendment has been an unmitigated disaster!


5 posted on 04/08/2026 2:51:01 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: thegagline

Keep Trump off of what ballot? The election is over.


6 posted on 04/08/2026 3:02:13 PM PDT by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: thegagline

She’s gonna win.


7 posted on 04/08/2026 3:05:08 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: thegagline

The new Communist Party USA! has lots of low-life members...


8 posted on 04/08/2026 3:06:53 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: thegagline
"Shenna Bellows? Bellows? Major Nelson, what is the meaning of this? Who is this insane woman?"


9 posted on 04/08/2026 3:12:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Maine has a lot of people on welfare. Yes, they will vote for her. /spit


10 posted on 04/08/2026 3:16:15 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Ge0ffrey

I was thinking that Nirav Shah and Angus King III were leading on the Democrat pack. Charles is winning on the Republican side. I love Maine. An absolutely beautiful state.


11 posted on 04/08/2026 3:26:53 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: SteelPSUGOP; Morgana; fwdude; ViLaLuz

Bellows supports ABORTION rights, describing herself as “a strong advocate for women’s healthcare and reproductive freedom including access to ABORTION and contraception”.

Bellows led the effort to enact marriage equality in Maine as the head of Mainers United for Marriage.[41][42] She supports federal anti-discrimination protections against LGBT people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenna_Bellows


Do she’s a Baby-Killing DEMOCRAT and
an LGBTQ+ Homosexual Agenda Enabler and a
Global Warming Fruitcake as well (at link)

IOW the standard Modern-Day DEMOCRAT

Got it


12 posted on 04/08/2026 3:52:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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SO she’s a Baby-Killing DEMOCRAT and
an LGBTQ+ Homosexual Agenda Enabler and a
Global Warming Fruitcake as well (at link)


13 posted on 04/08/2026 3:53:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Ge0ffrey

The Republicans actually have several strong candidates that have no political baggage and appeal to reasonable voters. It’s only in Southern Main where the lunatics are in any given concentration. I wouldn’t piss on Shanna Bellows if she was on fire!

From what I see in here even the D’s are tired of the current governor Mills and Bellows portrays herself as being in the same mold.


14 posted on 04/08/2026 4:28:16 PM PDT by pingman (Hi Ho Silver! AWAY!)
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To: sauropod

.


15 posted on 04/08/2026 4:29:36 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: thegagline

Unanimous ...
Ffs


16 posted on 04/08/2026 4:39:50 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden q)
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To: thegagline

Shenna is just stupid.


17 posted on 04/08/2026 5:11:36 PM PDT by chopperk (,)
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