Results: Massachusetts voters seek to keep Trump off state's 2024 primary ballot

Massachusetts voters filed an objection on Thursday to the state official responsible for overseeing elections seeking to remove former US President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot. Their efforts join with several others after Maine and Colorado already agreed to remove Trump from their respective ballots. In Thursday’s filing to the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission, Free Speech For People and a Massachusetts-based civil rights firm contended that the Republican front-runner had, “through his words and actions, after swearing an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to its enemies, as defined by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Consequently, they argue that Trump should be disqualified from holding office. The challengers span across the political spectrum with Republicans, Independents and Democrats among their ranks. This group also includes former Boston Mayor Kim Janey. Legal Director at Free Speech For People Ron Fein said: Donald Trump violated his oath of office and incited a violent insurrection that attacked the US Capitol, threatened the assassination of the Vice President and congressional leaders, and disrupted the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation’s history. https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/massachusetts-voters-seek-to-keep-trump-off-states-2024-primary-ballot/