Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State, removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment which prohibits anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. Since then, she’s faced threats of impeachment and death threats, and the likelihood that the Supreme Court will overturn the ruling.
CNN asked her about it, and she said, “I did my job that I was required to do under Maine law and the Constitution in holding a hearing and issuing a decision. The next step under the law is this appeal to Maine Superior Court and then the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and then the U.S. Supreme Court. And I, on the last page of my decision, suspended the effect of my decision pending the court process because that is what's important, the rule of law and the Constitution.”
Maine is the second state to take this action after Colorado. The U. S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the legality of this action across the country.
