Democrats BRAG about violating the Constitution to ‘save’ democracy

Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is actually running for governor on her willingness to take flagrantly unconstitutional action.

A former ACLU executive director in Maine, Bellows is touting her decision to remove Trump from the ballot in 2024, a move the Supreme Court unanimously swatted down in Colorado and Maine.

Bellows is virtually giddy recounting her efforts to stymie democracy and prevent voters from casting their ballots for the man who ultimately won the election.

It is all part of the strategy of fueling political rage before the midterm elections.

It allows you to claim to be the defender of democracy while seeking to block democratic choice; to be the defender of the Constitution while violating it.

In an age of rage, revenge, not reason, is language of politics.

Indeed, Democrats have been running this year on the pledges to round up Trump officials and their supporters for investigations and impeachments that override the will of the people.

New York congressional candidate George Conway is even pledging to ease impeachment rules to secure the removal of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Bellows’ parading her willingness to do things barred by the Constitution, campaigning on an unconstitutional act rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court (including three liberal justices), truly captures this age of rage.

It is the equivalent to how mobsters “make their bones” by whacking someone.

She is effectively saying that she was willing to do what other Democrats were unwilling to do: violate the Constitution.

Shenna Bellows has long embraced extreme political and historical viewpoints, including denouncing the electoral college as a “relic of white supremacy.”

She also declared that voter-ID laws are “rooted in white supremacy.”

Bellows rails that “the Jan. 6 insurrection was an unlawful attempt to overthrow the results of a free and fair election” even as she heralds her “bravery” in seeking to block a democratic vote by tossing Trump from the ballot.

Notably, polls show the public rejecting the claim of an insurrection, and neither Trump nor his associates were ever charged with insurrection.

Yet, it is certifiably established that Bellows attempted to violate the Constitution and subvert the democratic process by removing Trump’s name.

In its unanimous rejection of the move, the high court declared, “Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos.”

Bellows was one of those agents of chaos.

As Bellows relished the national attention for cleansing the ballot, some of us warned the act would be outrageously unconstitutional.

Ironically, she never got very far in her effort. A superior judge enjoined her, and she repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to get the matter before a higher court.

In other words, her efforts did nothing but generate publicity for her and proved an utter failure with the 9-0 loss in the Colorado case. (Bellows did not even get to join Colorado in defending the effort.)

Even Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden denounced Bellows’ decision to bar Trump from the primary.

The irony is crushing. Bellows is posting videos claiming she attempted to instruct Trump on the Constitution, but “the president clearly didn’t get the copy of the Constitution I sent him.”

This is akin to Pete Rose sending out copies of the Major League Baseball betting policy.

There is no sense of self-awareness as she proclaims, “There are no kings in America . . . We have a democracy.”

Even though she sought to prevent democracy by blocking the candidate who went on to win the election handily.

In my recent book “Rage and The Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution,” I discuss the rise of the “new Jacobins,” radicals who are calling for the scrapping of the Constitution or utilizing unconstitutional means to achieve political power.

“By any means necessary” has become a mantra on the left.

The true tragedy is that this is likely to work in garnering support.

Bellows and other Democrats are in a race to the bottom in proving that they are willing to do things that might make others hesitate.

While she may be viewed as bonkers by the courts, Bellows is a symbol of the perpetually enraged.

Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”