Comments by "" (@hewitc) on "Trump kicked off Maine 2024 ballot by secretary of state" video.

  1. And it doesn't say "has been convicted of" so a State Secretary of State can make a decision based upon facts, not a judicial precedent.
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  2. No dictators or oppressors. Vote Blue. Anyone but Trump!
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  3. You are missing the point. The disqualification language in the Constitution and State laws does not say "convicted of". No one said he was convicted of insurrection. That's not the test. It's a factual question of whether he committed the acts, whether convicted or not.
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  4.  @trentgilliam5192  right. "engaged in" not "convicted of". Big difference in interpreting the law. You don't need a "conviction" of insurrection to disqualify. You just need to satisfy the Secretary of State that factually it happened.
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  5.  @missmarya747  He will be making "Trump License Plates" as his next entrepreneurial failure.
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  6.  @zoki5602  He wasn't and didn't need to be found "guilty". The statute does not say anyone "who has been convicted". It says anyone who has committed insurrection. So it's a decsion of fact, not whether there has been a criminal conviction. But obviously you're not a lawyer.
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  7.  @Thefilepan  Uh, yeah, that's all he did. Notice all the Trump flags carried by the rioters assulting the Capitol? Probably not.
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  8.  @dh1752  I'm sure Russian TV did not show the whole thing
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  9. Trump voters can't write, so no.
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  10. No. Making license plates will be Trump's new occupation, but Secretaries of States can decide, and rule as a matter of law, who qualifies to be on a State ballot. What they can't do is create 11,000 votes for a losing candidate just because it's the President on the phone asking them to.
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  11.  @ElMarko6994  It's a determination of fact by the person authorized by law to make it.
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  12. These statutes do not require a of a conviction of insurrection. The State can, under the statute, make its own finding of fact.
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  13. huh? say that again?
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  14. So slavery again? That's really what the Republican party is all about today. To think they were once the party of Lincoln and have now gone 180 degrees in favor of racism.
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  15.  @winstonsmith6607  I guess you weren't on the high school football team
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  16.  @zoki5602  it's obvious
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  17.  @skylarc6063  What you are saying is irrelevant. No one said Trump was convicted of a crime. Under state law, to be on the ballot he had to meet certain qualifications. He must be over 35, born in the US and not have engaged in an act of resurrection against the government. The law does not say "convicted of a crime" involving an act of insurrection. Big difference. So he met qualifications one and two but failed three. No prior conviction was necessary.
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  18.  @scottty6250  what "communists"?
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  19.  @kahanakahuna1470  Do you know what a "communist" is? Sounds like to you it just means someone you don't like. It involves beliefs about private property rights. What Democrat believes that there should be no private property and that all property should be owned by the state? Obama, Biden and Clinton are all Millionaires. That sounds pretty capitalist to me!
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  20. That's just silly!
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