Maine secretary of state who opted to keep Trump off primary ballot is facing threat of impeachment

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Maine secretary of state who opted to keep Trump off primary ballot is facing threat of impeachment
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Maine’s top election official could face an impeachment attempt in the state Legislature over her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the Republican primary ballot.

At least one Republican lawmaker has vowed to pursue impeachment against Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows despite long odds in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.

Bellows said Friday that she had no comment on the impeachment effort, but said she was duty-bound by state law to make a determination on three challenges brought by registered Maine voters. She reiterated that she suspended her decision pending an anticipated appeal by Trump in Superior Court.

“Under Maine law, I have not only the authority but the obligation to act,” she said. “I will follow the Constitution and the rule of law as directed by the courts,” she added.

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I don't get how Republicans have any credibility amongst the electorate at this point. They demand blind obedience, or else cry foul, and somehow, a significant part of the population still supports this bullshit. Their eyes must be painted on, or else they're willfully ignorant.

There are plenty of stupid, ignorant people who still to this day say both parties are the same simply because they're too stupid and ignorant to tell them apart.

I think it's not that the significant amount of the population supports them, it's rather that they detest the left and would side with anyone except the Dems.

The problem is how to excise this ignorance out of our culture? We are stuck with this trash for at least my lifetime, and I'm 40. I can't see this country overhauling education, cracking down on racism/xenophobia and unfucking the gerrymandering that has been perpetrated by the trashy right for 20yrs before I die.

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