Maine election chief tells POLITICO: Barring Trump from ballot was 'my duty'


Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on Friday defended her decision to bar Donald Trump from the ballot, telling POLITICO in an interview that he simply did not meet the constitutional requirements for holding high office.

Bellows’s decision this week to eject Trump — on the grounds that he engaged in insurrection, violating the 14th Amendment — intensified an already roaring legal debate over his eligibility to run for the........

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