Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is once again pushing back against a Justice Department request for a copy of Maine's voter registration files.
Bellows struck a much more diplomatic tone in her official response than when she told the Department of Justice to "jump in the Gulf of Maine" during a press conference last month.
But Bellows, a Democrat who clashed with Trump's campaign during last year's election, did not appear to offer the DOJ any information that was not already publicly available or that had previously been supplied to an federal elections commission. She also said that the U.S. Constitution grants states, not the federal government, the authority to administer federal elections.
"Given the surprising — indeed, to our knowledge unprecedented — scope of DOJ's