Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' home targeted with swatting call - The Boston Globe

Dec 30, 2023 View Original Article
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  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    88% Negative

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36% Positive

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"Bellows has said that her ruling is suspended, pending an expected appeal by Trump in the Maine State Superior Court."
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-8% Liberal
"The incident is currently under investigation, according to officials.Bellows's decision to remove Trump from the presidential primary ballot on citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection against it from holding office."
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-44% Liberal
"Bellows is also facing the threat of impeachment in the state Legislature with at least one Republican lawmaker vowing to pursue impeachment against her for her decision to keep Trump off the Republican primary ballot."
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-52% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Bellows has said that her ruling is suspended, pending an expected appeal by Trump in the Maine State Superior Court.
28% : The incident is currently under investigation, according to officials.Bellows's decision to remove Trump from the presidential primary ballot on citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection" against it from holding office.
24% : Bellows is also facing the threat of impeachment in the state Legislature with at least one Republican lawmaker vowing to pursue impeachment against her for her decision to keep Trump off the Republican primary ballot.
21% : Maine was the the second state, following Colorado, to find Trump ineligible for the ballot.
17% : Several states are weighing whether Trump violated that provision when a mob of his supporters attacked the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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