https://nbcnews.com/politics/rcna
Maine’s top election official ruled Thursday that Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot next year, fueling a national effort to disqualify the former president over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, follows a bombshell Colorado Supreme Court ruling last week that concluded the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits Trump from serving in office again because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
However, Bellows' office said her decision would not be enforced until the courts weigh in, "given the compressed timeframe, the novel constitutional questions involved, the importance of this case, and impending ballot preparation deadlines."
@SnailDanConstitution4mos4MO
The unilateral decision of Maine’s secretary of state to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot is insane, reckless, and indefensible. It’s another example of extraconstitutional decision-making that doesn’t come close to meeting any legitimate standard of due process of law.
@SeagullTonyDemocrat4mos4MO
Either SCOTUS is "textualists" or they aren't. Are Roberts and Alito interested in throwing away the entire intellectual basis for their right-wing jurisprudence? For Donald Trump?
Everyone says "yes" because Republicans are hypocrites. I'm not so sure. The CW might be wrong.
@9HRYZQN 4mos4MO
Trump has been shown to have committed insurrection acts and according to the 14th amendment he is disqualified
@9HRYQ3P4mos4MO
Find it scary that the government isn't allowing its people to decide the president.
@PolentaDon4mos4MO
The ultimate purveyors of "ends justify the means." They truly believe their way of thinking is "right" and "moral," so acting in ways that demean freedom and liberty are pure and noble.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
They're hopelessly evil people rigging the next election
@CuriousF3deralistRepublican4mos4MO
It's really wild that the Maine Secretary of State just seized the power to unilaterally block presidential candidates from the ballot, based on a brand new non-judicial administrative procedure she literally just made up herself, supposedly to enforce the federal 14th Amendment
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
The 14th Amendment was never even constitutionally ratified so it's null and void, Lincoln's military dictatorship and occupation of the South and the Radical Republicans forced it down their throats.
@BetrayedMareIndependent4mos4MO
Shenna Bellows, who was never popularly elected statewide, says the usual rules of evidence don't apply to her newly-invented procedure, which is governed by Maine administrative law, therefore authorizing her to accept the Jan 6 Committee Report as admissible probative evidence
@BetrayedMareIndependent4mos4MO
It’s funny, what state will be next? It’s coordinated by Biden WH, it’s a joke….Hail Mary fear.
@RatAuroraRepublican4mos4MO
Trump is the frontrunner not just for the GOP but for the 2024 general
Removing him is an act of civil war
Removing him ends the Republic
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
The red states should instantly secede and form a Libertarian Confederacy
@R3publicanIkeRepublican4mos4MO
What Republicans still don’t appreciate is how ruthless progressives are. They don’t care about democratic elections, the law, the 14th Amendment … They want power & will do anything to stop Trump from cutting them off, even if it means doing the very things they’re warning Trump may do as president
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
How do you feel about a state official having the power to determine a presidential candidate's eligibility based on constitutional interpretation?
@9HS3TYF4mos4MO
@9HS2ZQ64mos4MO
Unless Trump is deemed unable to run by the United States Constitution he should not be removed from any ballot. That is unconstitutional.
The United States Constitution, Amendment XIV, Section 3:
"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 enemi… Read more
@9HRYYXR4mos4MO
Outrageous, even if you dislike trump you must acknowledge that the government has no right to decide who you can or can’t vote for.
@9HRZPRH4mos4MO
That’s not fair to the supports of a candidate in that state. Regardless of the candidate or state.
@9HRZ3GDConstitution4mos4MO
No state should be able to bar a candidate base on the opinions of less than 10 people
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