Maine's Voter Data - Request Denied

Producer & Host: Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Shenna Bellows, Maine's Secretary of State who talked about the ongoing struggle with the Trump Administration over its request for Maine's sensitive Voter Data and why the request has been denied. She is now engaged in another fight with the Trump administration over her refusal to hand out covert license plates to ICE agents who work at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. During the surge that took place last month, ICE agents detained 190 people; slightly more than half of those arrests were detained as collateral rather than as targets. Many were performing routine daily activities when agents targeted them. Maine's Attorney General has also rejected the Department of Justice demands stating that Bellow's policy reflects a legitimate and constitutional policy choice not to allow state resources to be commandeered by the federal government for use in civil immigration enforcement activities that have resulted in multiple incidents of abusive and unconstitutional conduct by DHS officials.