Why Do Republicans Think That Laws Don’t Apply To Them?

Have you noticed that there are people who think that they don’t have to obey the law or the Constitution? That they are above the law. They live in their own fantasy world where January 6^th was just a “peaceful” protest. Where in their little minds the insurrectionists that blocked Congress from voting was a nothing at all.

Now the Republicans are going after the Maine Attorney General.

Maine GOP state lawmaker moves to impeach state secretary over Trump ballot removal

Bellows removed Trump from the primary ballot Thursday evening, citing the 14th Amendment

Fox News

By Houston Keene

December 29, 2023

A Maine Republican state lawmaker wants to impeach the Maine secretary of state who removed former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot.

GOP state Rep. John Andrews said he wants to pursue impeachment against Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after she disqualified Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday.

In her ruling, Bellows cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bans from office those who "engaged in insurrection."

Andrews said in a statement that he filed a request with the Maine Revisor's Office saying he wanted "to file a Joint Order, or whichever is the proper parliamentary mechanism under Mason's Rules, to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows."

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Andrews said in his statement that he wants to impeach Bellows "on the grounds that she is barring an American citizen and [the] 45th President of the United States, who is convicted of no crime or impeachment, their right to appear on a Maine Republican Party ballot in March."

All she did was follow the law of Maine, I guess that they think that they are exempt from the laws and Constitution.

Maine's secretary of state explains her reasons for barring Trump from primary ballot

CBS News

BY KATRINA KAUFMAN

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says she was following Maine's election law and upholding the U.S. Constitution when she disqualified Donald Trump from her state's presidential primary ballot. 

Maine is the second state to bar Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution — a decision the Trump campaign said it would appeal. It is the only state where a challenge to a candidate's qualification is initially the responsibility of the secretary of state rather than a court.

CBS News spoke with Bellows shortly after the release of her decision Thursday night.

The interview was restricted to a discussion of her ruling and the process, leaving unanswered questions about risks to her potential safety. In the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling to disqualify Trump from holding office — a ruling that's currently on hold pending appeal — the Colorado justices who voted to bar him have been inundated with threats. 

"In evaluating the weight of the evidence, it (was) made clear that Mr. Trump was aware of the tinder that was laid in a multi-month effort to delegitimize the 2020 election and (he) then chose to light a match," said Bellows, a Democrat who took office in 2021.

The Republican crowd just can’t believe that their guy did anything in telling his cult followers to go and stop Congress from voting.

Under Maine law, voters can petition the secretary of state with challenges to a candidate's qualifications for office, and then a public hearing is held where the challengers must make their case. 

"In Maine, we're very proud of our voting rights. We were first in the nation in 2022 with voter participation. And we have a statute that makes me different from any other state that I have observed," said Bellows. "My obligation under Maine state law was to issue a decision very quickly. I'm not permitted under Maine law to wait for the United States Supreme Court to intervene in this particular proceeding."

The Republicans are living in the make believe world where the election was stolen (How? No one knows but it was!) and Jan 6^th was just a peaceful insurrection.

"I am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3," said Bellows, echoing a line from her ruling. "And I'm also mindful that no presidential candidate has ever engaged in insurrection under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment."

The Republicans believe that those 98 individuals that have been found guilty court trials and the 632 people have pleaded guilty to federal charges that many of them have received jail time is the result of a political vendetta. They think that because that is what they would have done and they can't believe that the Democrats are not like them.