On Thursday evening, State Representative John Andrews (R) took action by filing a request to the Maine Revisor’s Office for a Joint Order to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.
The move follows Bellows’ decision to blatantly interfere with the 2024 election by unilaterally removing President Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot
Citing his “constitutional right under Article IV: Part 1st: Section 8 ‘Power of impeachment. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment,’” as stated in his request.
Representative Andrews holds membership in the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, responsible for overseeing elections and the Office of the Secretary of State.
This is Maine State Rep. John Andrews. He has announced his intent to impeach Shenna Bellows for stripping Trump from Maine’s ballot.
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) December 29, 2023
FINALLY! SOME BALLS!
Impeachment isn’t strong enough for these new Democrats anymore.
They think the Constitution is meaningless, and that… pic.twitter.com/98UbAh4Dz0
“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 continued, “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.”
“This 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.”
Within moments of Bellows’ decision going public, Trump Campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, issued a scathing statement condemning the overtly partisan decision to blatantly interfere with the 2024 presidential election.
“The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.”
“We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter. Democrats in blue states are recklessly and unconstitutionally suspending the civil rights of the American voters by attempting to summarily remove President Trump’s name from the ballot. Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”
