And now there are two states which have claimed to disqualify Donald Trump from the Republican primary. Colorado at least put on a pretense of due process with a civil lawsuit in state court that resulted in Trump being found guilty of a federal crime by judges rather than a jury. That got appealed by the Colorado GOP yesterday to the Supreme Court, and quick action is expected.
In Maine, Democrats didn’t even bother with a judicial pretense. Also yesterday, Maine’s secretary of state Shenna Bellows barred Trump from appearing on the ballot after she decreed Trump an insurrectionist based on three challenges from registered voters. Bellows held a hearing two weeks prior to take testimony, and deduced Trump’s guilt without any trial or judicial involvement at all:
“The events of January 6, 2021 were unprecedented and tragic,” Bellows wrote in Thursday’s decision….
