Amid a national progressive campaign to keep former president Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, should he choose to run again, Massachusetts’s top elections official says it’s not so simple – and the issue is in the US Department of Justice’s hands. The core of the discussion is the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, […]
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Groups seek to keep Trump off 2024 ballot due to insurrection
AMID A NATIONAL progressive campaign to keep former president Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, should he choose to run again, Massachusetts’s top elections official says it’s not so simple – and the issue is in the US Department of Justice’s hands. The core of the discussion is the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, […]
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Here’s the Diehl with wacky Mass. politics
IT’S OFTEN HARD for outsiders to make sense of Massachusetts, where Democrats reign supreme but Republicans have dominated the governor’s office for more than three decades. Today’s development does little to help clear things up. The thumbnail version: A former Republican president who is deeply unpopular in the state has endorsed a former Republican state […]
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Is Trump’s exit bad for Baker?
IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT. Not the insurrection at the US Capitol or the discrediting of fairly conducted elections or the general degradation of democratic principles — though there may be those things, too. In this case, the damage done by the former president is to Charlie Baker’s approval ratings. The governor, whose political standing with voters […]
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Trump leaves, but the chaos sown remains
DONALD TRUMP will be the first president in more than 150 years not to attend his successor’s inauguration, jetting off this morning to Florida in a denialist huff about his reelection defeat. The Washington Post documented more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his four years in office. One of them, of course, overshadows […]
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What are you going to do?
WERE YOU SHOCKED by the events in Washington DC, when pro-Trump demonstrators, urged on by the president himself, breached the US Capital and unleashed mayhem in a final desperate attempt to overturn the November election? Really, you were? Did you say out loud “I can’t believe this is happening in America” as you watched CNN […]
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Baker calls for Trump’s removal
REPUBLICAN GOV. Charlie Baker on Thursday called for President Trump to be removed from office, joining the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation in saying the president fueled division and spread lies about election rigging that led to the mob takeover of the US Capitol. “Yesterday’s events were appalling, disgraceful, and depressing,” Baker said at a State […]
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Mass. delegation stunned, outraged by mob invasion of Capitol
FOR JAKE AUCHINCLOSS, the first days in office as a new member of Congress have felt the same as they likely did for hundreds of lawmakers before him — momentous and awe-inspiring. Now add to that a very different adjective: chilling. The newest member of the state’s congressional delegation was sheltering in place with his […]
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Can there be a DC return to ‘normality’?
MONDAY’S MEETING OF presidential electors in state capitols across the country is the kind of ritual that usually gets cursory news coverage, one of those quadrennial stories reported more as a reminder of the country’s quirky method of electing a president than a moment of true drama and importance. But all of that was different […]
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Trump’s rise — and fall — carry a Massachusetts echo
HIS ELECTORAL TRIUMPH seemed like a fluke. Just to pursue our highest public office as a first-time candidate was improbable enough. To go on to win it was so flabbergasting as to cause the many pollsters who had predicted his defeat to question their sampling methods. But in retrospect, the victory was not entirely surprising. A […]