Yet another state – this time, Massachusetts – has rejected claims that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be on GOP presidential primary ballots because he participated in an “insurrection” on Jan 6, 2021.

If he had in fact participated in an insurrection, he could not run for president because of the 14^th Amendment’s insurrection ban. However, it's important to note that he has not been charged with or convicted of inciting or participating in such an event.

The commission didn’t look into the 14th Amendment claims; instead, their vote was procedural, and they determined that they didn't have jurisdiction to address the matter. In their arguments last week, meanwhile, the challengers claimed the constitutional issues should prevent the former president from being considered for the office:

“We believe that Mr. Trump’s candidacy for this office and placement on the Massachusetts ballot violates the Constitution, so we are challenging the constitutionality,” said Shannon Liss-Riordan, an attorney for the challengers. “It is the job of this commission to hear objections to the legality of placement of candidates on the ballot.”

Of course, the losers of this round were not pleased and planned to appeal.

“Importantly, this was not a ruling on the merits,” attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who’s representing the voters trying to remove Trump from the ballot, said in a statement following the ruling.

“We believe the Commission erred in its interpretation of Massachusetts election laws when it held it did not have jurisdiction to rule on this dispute,” Liss-Riordan added.

These anti-Democratic challenges have so far occurred in at least 31 states, but many such efforts have been shot down, including in California, Michigan, New Hampshire, Arizona, Rhode Island, West Virginia, and Florida. Most were tossed on procedural grounds as judges and commissions were reluctant to weigh in on the 14^th Amendment issue. Actions are pending in several more states.

However, in Colorado and Maine, Trump did not come out on top, and the former president was ruled ineligible (by the state Supreme Court in Colorado’s case and by rogue Democrat election official Shenna Bellows in Maine’s). Those cases are now headed to the Supreme Court, where – if there is any sanity left in Washington, D.C. – they will be promptly thrown in the garbage.

See also:

Maine Election Official So Desperate to Keep Trump off Ballot She's Appealing Judge's Hold on Decision

RNC, 27 States Urge SCOTUS to Keep Trump on Ballot in Colorado or There Will Be 'Chaos in Our Country'

The cries to keep Trump off the ballot are against the Democratic principles our nation was founded on, and the efforts by Dems in these states reek of fear and desperation. They also illustrate their totalitarian tendencies – leaders jail their opponents and keep them off the ballots in dictatorships; it’s not supposed to happen here.

Most of these pathetic 14th Amendment efforts will probably continue to fail, and the Supreme Court may shut down the whole argument altogether when they rule, but it’s still disturbing to have to watch and is highly illustrative of what these people really stand for.