'Legally way off': Ex-federal prosecutor rips Trump's 'deeply flawed' case against ballot exclusion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (image via screengrab)Only nine days after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment disqualifies 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows agreed with that reasoning and, on December 28, barred Trump from the ballot in her state.
47% : "POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again?
45% : However, Michigan and deep blue California have decided that Trump can remain on their ballots.
44% : The Colorado and Maine decisions, Wehle notes, were made "on the grounds that Trump engaged in an insurrection after having taken an oath to support the Constitution and is accordingly disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
40% : This complaint only seems to arise when the candidate is Trump.
28% : In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on January 3, Kimberly Wehle -- a law professor, author and former federal prosecutor -- tears apart the "deeply flawed" and "legally way off" anti-Bellows arguments that Trump supporters have been using.
12% : "The former federal prosecutor laments that attacks on Bellows and others from Trump supporters "have reached an ugly level.

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