Maine, Unbound by the Rules of Evidence, Relies on ‘Hearsay’ To Disqualify the 45th President From a Place on the State’s Ballot in 2024

The frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president is blocked in an administrative hearing.

AP/Robert F. Bukaty, file
Maine's secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, on January 4, 2023, at Augusta. AP/Robert F. Bukaty, file

The determination by Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, that President Trump is constitutionally disqualified from appearing on her state’s presidential ballot — arrived at via an administrative hearing, not a trial — is likely to be seized on by those who contend that this effort to prevent America’s 45th president from becoming its 47th one is undemocratic.

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