Maine GOP Lawmaker Is Pushing to Impeach Secretary of State Over Trump Ballot Ruling

Mr. Andrews noted that the former president should be allowed on the Maine ballot as he has met the qualifications for the 2024 GOP presidential primary.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after arriving for his civil business fraud trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York City, on Dec. 7, 2023. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez-Pool/Getty Images

A Maine GOP lawmaker is pushing an effort to impeach Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after she ruled former President Donald Trump ineligible for the state’s 2024 primary ballot.

Rep. John Andrews said on Dec. 28 that he filed a request for a joint order with the Maine Revisor’s Office to impeach Ms. Bellows. “I wish to impeach Secretary Bellows on the grounds that she is barring an American citizen and 45th President of the United States, who is convicted of no crime or impeachment, their right to appear on a Maine Republican Primary ballot,” Mr. Andrews said in a statement.