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Five Massachusetts voters filed a new challenge on Jan. 4, 2024, asking the state’s Ballot Law Commission to keep Donald Trump off Massachusetts’ presidential primary and general-election ballot. The filing became public on Jan. 5, the same day the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Colorado ballot case that could decide whether Trump is disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. ([freespeechforpeople.org](https://freespeechforpeople.org/massachusetts-voters-challenge-trumps-ballot-eligibility-under-14-3-insurrectionist-disqualification-clause/?utm_source=openai))

The petition says Trump is ineligible because of his role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6, 2021. It was brought on behalf of Massachusetts voters and filed before the state’s election-appeals body, not as a federal lawsuit. ([freespeechforpeople.org](https://freespeechforpeople.org/massachusetts-voters-challenge-trumps-ballot-eligibility-under-14-3-insurrectionist-disqualification-clause/?utm_source=openai))

The Massachusetts filing does not create a new national case by itself. It adds another state-level challenge while the Supreme Court prepares to review the Colorado dispute in Trump v. Anderson, which the court granted on Jan. 5 and scheduled for argument in February 2024. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/010524zr2_886b.pdf?utm_source=openai))

The timing still matters politically. Trump was already facing a growing set of Section 3 challenges in multiple states, and Massachusetts joined that list just as the justices put the constitutional question on a fast track. The result is less a single ballot fight than a pileup of them, all built around the same question: whether Trump’s conduct after the 2020 election bars him from another term. ([freespeechforpeople.org](https://freespeechforpeople.org/massachusetts-voters-challenge-trumps-ballot-eligibility-under-14-3-insurrectionist-disqualification-clause/?utm_source=openai))