Maine GOP rep moves to impeach Secretary of State Sheena Bellows after striking Trump from ballot

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Following Maine Secretary of State Sheena Bellows’ ruling on Thursday that Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot, Maine State Rep. John Andrews has filed a request with the Maine Revisor’s Office for a joint order to impeach Bellows.

In the letter Andrew cited the House’s sole power to impeach in the state. “I wish to file a Joint Order, or whichever is the proper parliamentary mechanism under Mason’s Rules, to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. I wish to impeach Secretary Bellows on the grounds that she is barring an American citizen and 45th President of the United States, who is convicted of no crime or impeachment, their right to appear on a Maine Republican Primary ballot,” Andrews wrote in the letter, part of which was posted to Facebook.

“Donald J. Trump has met all qualifications for the March 2024 Republican Presidential Primary. He should be allowed on the ballot. This is raw partisanship and has no place in the offices of our state’s Constitutional Officers.”

Andres said in a statement that the removal of Trump “is hyper-partisanship on full display. A Secretary of State APPOINTED by legislative Democrats bans President Trump from the 2024 ballot so that she can jockey for position in the 2026 Democrat Primary for Governor. Banana Republic isn’t just a store at the mall.”

In a 34-page ruling issued Thursday evening, Bellows said that “I conclude that Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid. Specifically, I find that the declaration on his candidate consent for is false because he is not qualified to hold the office of the President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Bellows wrote that she disagrees “with Mr. Trump’s contention that only Congress can adjudicate the qualifications of a Presidential candidate.”

She noted that “I am cognizant of the fact that my decision could soon be rendered a nullity by a decision of the United States Supreme Court in Anderson,” referring to the Colorado case barring Trump from the ballot, “that possibility does not relieve me of my responsibility to act.”

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