34 page decision:https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2023/...0Petitions.pdf

looks like some RINOs are involved again



https://apnews.com/article/maine-tru...423cb2f8c66dee

Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs state authority to block former president

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — 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.

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.

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.

Bellows won’t have the final word on Trump’s political career. Her decision can be appealed to Maine’s courts. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to make a final decision on whether Trump can still run for president early next year.

Activists have asked state election officials across the country to remove Trump from their states’ primary ballots under Section 3. Until Bellows’ ruling, all of them rejected the request, often saying they were waiting for courts to give direction on how to interpret the clause, which has been used only a handful of times since the years following the Civil War.

Maine law mandated that Bellows hold a public hearing over the issue, which she did in December. A lawyer and former executive director of the Maine chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Bellows allowed each side to submit additional arguments after the Colorado Supreme Court’s historic Dec. 19 decision that Section 3 barred Trump from the ballot.

Trump’s campaign has said it will appeal that court’s 4-3 ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has never ruled on Section 3. Whatever the high court decides will apply to every state, including Maine.

The Maine decision shows the potential perils to Trump if the issue is decided on a state-by-state basis. He lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need it to win the presidency. But Maine divides its electoral votes by congressional districts, and Trump has twice won the state’s second congressional district.

If he’s not on the ballot there, he would start his 2024 campaign down one Electoral College vote.

The secretary of state’s office said it’s not aware of the office previously striking a presidential candidate from the ballot, but other candidates for lower offices have been removed that way.

We get it, deep blue states are removing him, further proving how they have become one-party hellholes.

From the party that calls everyone else a dictator fascist lol

No. No decision has been made yet.

The real issue is it creates justification for either side to claim the election wasn't legit

It's hilarious how ****ing dumb the party of education is.

SCOTUS hasn't told Colorado to fuk off yet. I think what happened there is the primaries are so close the Colorado Supreme Court said if SCOTUS hasn't ruled by a certain date, Trump is to be included on the primary ballot (Colorado SC 'stayed' their own order banning Trump).

Hypothetically if SCOTUS were to affirm the Colorado/Maine decisions (or decline to hear them), then he will be barred from the general election ballot in those states (and perhaps other states that may try and bar him). That's my understanding of the current situation.

Not sure if any of the states that may seek to bar him from the ballot will make a difference in practice.

No idea what this means

Colorado put a hold on their own ruling until the supreme court validates it. They sort of told themselves to fuk off. But what else can you expect from spineless commies

Trump is back on the Colorado ballot. There was a stay included if trump appeals, which he did. There's no way the supreme Court makes a ruling by January 5, which is when primary ballots start print.

This is probably even worse than Colorado though. One official simply deciding it. At least in Colorado it was a panel of judges, although both are horrible banana Republic tactics.

Another attack on democracy. These justices should be ashamed of themselves. They are traitors to our nation, closer to Adolf Hitler than anything Trump has ever done or said. Evil. Pure fuking evil.

This one is actually consequential because Maine allocated electoral votes based on congressional districts. It’s not a winner take all state. Trump would normally win the rural parts of the state and win at least 1 EV.

basically the same as circular reporting / circular reasoning.


The democrat state attorney generals use a charge sheet from the federal democrat attorney general whom accused Trump of a crime as justification to eliminate him from their ballots for federal office. He has not been convicted of anything and the attorney generals are political appointees, appointed by democrats.

If drumpfs attorney general accused Biden of accepting foreign bribes and then republican attorney generals removed him from the ballots in 2020, MSM would explode with muh election interference.

From the part that loves to screech about supposed threats to the sacred "Democracy!"

In Maine this isn't justices doing it, its literally just the democrat Secretary of State who decided Trump can't be on the ballot. Its as naked as corruption gets

Lmao ho lee fook I read “decision” and thought a court issued this order. Wow. So the Maine Secretary is a Nazi? You can’t make this chit up.





LITERALLY the same!!!

Congrats *******s, you just made people push for a trump vote.

It’s repulsive what’s happening here.

lol so the pasy nasty looking creature gets to dictate who I vote for? Fukin sickening. My ancestors who fought in 1776 are ROLLING

The country is in trouble guys. They are not going to let Trump back in the oval office.. my main worry is how far they will go to ensure it.

Everyone needs to vote this year. Even those of us that have never voted.

Yes, they know this will never fly in the SCOTUS and it's all optics to get a high level position in the next administration or court nominee. Typical libcuck playbook.

The only one who's tried to stop the transfer of power is trump and trumptard cult

They will pull out ALL the stops, this time. They’ll do anything and everything.

We live in a Dystopian state at this point.

lol

This is the woman who just unilaterally barred Trump from the ballot in Maine



You can’t make this up

Bump my post when we don’t have an election. Plan C for the democrats will be martial law. They’ll either use false flag terror or cyber attacks or use the illegals.

This is for the primaries, to see what objections, legal hurdles etc there are before they try this with the general.

If this is allowed to stand with the primaries, not only will they try it with Trump in the general, but also any republican who supported him, as furthering the conspiracy/insurrection/hurt feelings.

They could potentially take out multiple GOP candidates.

How rude!

bro, you literally have the most brain dead comments next to MOL.

Yours sig just highlights the type of loser that makes these comments.

You're a legit clown.

This f'n moron. The U.S. is not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. This ban won't last, it's like they want Trump to win

Heard this dumb bullchit so many times. People vote, then somebody becomes president (or senator or congressman) based on those votes with a few extra rules for show. It's practically a democracy and this semantic discussion is fkn retarded. Pick your battles instead of having these retarded discussions.