A Republican state representative has moved to impeach Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after she announced that former President Donald Trump would be disqualified from her state’s presidential primary ballot.
State Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) blasted Bellows’ decision, saying this week that the decision was an example of “raw partisanship” and that she had no authority to unilaterally remove Trump from the ballot. Bellows made her decision based on her belief that Trump violated the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause on January 6, 2021.
“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,…
