Good day all. The current Secretary of state in Maine, Shenna Bellows, is continuing to try and justify her blatant unconstitutional action to keep the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, off the primary ballot.
Recently, the Democrat Party has been decided that the way to keep President Trump from winning a second term is to declare him an insurrectionist and ban him from running under the 14th Amendment. A number of Democrat operatives have attempted to do so and have been slammed down hard by the courts or by secretaries of state. However, four corrupt thugs pretending to be judges on the Colorado State Supreme Court and the secretary of State of Maine have decided that they have the authority to keep President Trump from running.
While the crooked fascist judges in Colorado are trying to hide behind the facade of judicial action, The Secretary of State of Maine just decided that she had the authority to declare protest on January 6th 2021 to be an insurrection and that President Trump was responsible for it. She has been slammed for this with people saying that she is playing politics. Shenna Bellows is denying that politics had any part in her unlawful decision. Here are the details from Fox News:
The Maine election official who disqualified former President Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot said on Monday that politics did not influence her decision.
“Politics and my personal views played no role,” Bellows told NPR in an interview. “I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and that is what I did.”
Well guess what? You are in violation of your oath.
Her controversial decision followed a similar ruling by Colorado’s state Supreme Court that cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars candidates who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States from holding federal elected office.
Colorado’s state Supreme Court was not unified in this decision. It was four to three and the minority dissent was absolutely brutal on the four judicial tyrants. The four judges flat out violated most of the Bill of Rights. The decision is already being escalated to the Supreme Court and they will have to rule on it. In most cases, where the attempts to force President Trump off the ballot reached a judge and the plaintiffs were using the 14th Amendment, until Colorado, the judges clubbed the plaintiffs with a judicial 2×4. Shenna Bellows doesn’t even have the cover of a judicial proceeding.
The Trump campaign had derided both decisions and called Bellows “a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat,” accusing her of election interference on behalf of President Biden.
Which it is. The qualifications to be President of the United States are laid down in the Constitution. The 14th Amendment was aimed at those who joined the Confederate States of America and after the civil war, may have thought that they could rejoin Congress and continue their mischief making. For reference, here is the relevant part of the 14th Amendment.
Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Right off the bat is the issue of Insurrection. Outside of the Mostly Stupid Media and the Democrat Party, no one is calling what happened on January 6th an insurrection. No one has been charged with insurrection, Congress never declared what happened to be an insurrection, and most importantly, no one on the left is talking about President Trump’s remark during his speech to “Peacefully and Patriotically’ March to the Capitol.”
The Left is also saying that President Trump’s call to not count the electoral votes from states with questionable results was a threat and was insurrectionist. In other words they are saying that President Trump has no 1st Amendment right of free speech, not does he have the right to question the results, or ask congress to look into things. For those of you who don’t know what the 1st Amendment actually says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The key things that happened with regards to President Trump’s speech was people peaceably assembling, (Which happened at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue, White House and Capitol Hill), with a few hundred people getting a bit to “Enthusiastic.” Those who committed assaults are being dealt with under the law. However, the security videos are blowing massive holes in the whole “Insurrection” narrative. It’s hard to be called an insurrectionist when the Capitol Police are acting like tour guides and the “Insurrectionists” are acting like tourists.
However, the Maine election chief explained said she was required to issue a decision after registered voters challenged Trump’s qualification for the ballot.
“Under Maine law, when I qualified Mr. Trump for the ballot, any registered voter had the right to challenge that qualification,” Bellows told “All Things Considered” host Scott Detrow. “Five voters did so, including two former Republican state senators. And then I was required under the statute, under the law, to hold a hearing and issue a decision, and do so within a very compressed timeline. So this wasn’t something I initiated, but it’s something that’s required under Maine election law.”
Bellows said she “carefully” reviewed evidence presented at a hearing that the violence on Jan. 6 “occurred at the behest of, and with the knowledge and support of, the outgoing president.”
If you were an actual, honest Secretary of State, you would simply have responded that you do not have the authority to issue a ruling to remove President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. That you didn’t shows that you are not fit to hold the office you now have.
She called the riot “tragic” and an “attack not only upon the capital and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law, on the peaceful transfer of power.”
“The United States Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government. And under Maine election law, I was required to act in response,” Bellows said.
Really? How about what happened January 20th, 2017 when left wing rioters were destroying cars and property in Washington and were trying to prevent President Trump from taking the oat of office? Was that an insurrection or was it a riot?
Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot, criticized Bellows’ decision and said voters should be able to vote for Trump “until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection.”
I won’t bother going into that joke of an Impeachment. It was a load of crap pushed by the Democrats to “Get Trump!” Saying that, Golden is correct in this. There has been no declaration of an insurrection by Congress. No one has been tried for insurrection, certainly not President Trump. So what was Bellows response?
In response to her critics, Bellows told NPR that the Constitution does not require Trump to be convicted to be barred from the ballot.
“So I encourage people to read my decision, and also read very carefully Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It doesn’t say ‘convict.’ It doesn’t say ‘convicted’ or ‘impeached,'” she said.
“But furthermore, here’s what’s very, very important: In my decision, I made clear this is part of Maine’s process,” she continued. “It now goes to Maine Superior Court. Mr. Trump may, and will, appeal to Superior Court. Then it goes to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and then to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
It’s already going to the Supreme Court. As much as Roberts would like to ignore this, he won’t be able to. The Supreme Court should, by rights, rule 9-0 in favor of President Trump and state that the 14th Amendment is being misapplied. I’ve seen a number of pundits who think it will be 7-2 in Trump and America’s favor. While I haven’t seen which two they think will vote to ban Trump, it’s a good bet that it will be Ketanji Brown Jackson will be one of the two.
In the mean time, Bellows, along with the Colorado Supreme Court have stayed their decision pending the ruling by the Supreme Court. While we are waiting for the inevitable smash down of the Democrat’s political operatives latest attempt to “Stop Trump!”, people are looking at ways to legally remove and punish these people for interfering with the voter’s right to chose who they want to vote for.
There is one other Republican off the Maine ballot. Eater of Donuts, aka Chris Christie. However, it appears that his campaign team dropped the ball and didn’t get the required number of petition signatures. That is a major difference. Everyone knew what was required to get on the ballot in Maine and that fat slob’s team dropped the ball. Trump’s team didn’t. No one is objecting to this, since it was Christie shooting himself in the foot.
Now we are in a waiting game for the Supreme Court. As I mentioned earlier, it’s generally assumed that they will put an end to this nonsense. Once they do, look for the Democrats to try something else to “Get Trump!” I’m sure they will try to come up with something utter stupid and with no basis in the law or Constitution.
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