In a Monday court filing, the North Carolina board of elections said it maintains the authority to block Rep. Madison Cawthorn from seeking another term in Congress over his activities leading up to the Jan. 6th Capitol riot.

The Hill reports:

“The State does not judge the qualifications of the elected members of the U.S. House of Representative. It polices candidate qualifications prior to the elections,” the board wrote in a filing to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Cawthorn.

“In doing so, as indicated above, States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges. The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the board added.

The Congressman filed a lawsuit after a group of 11 North Carolina voters began attempting to have him barred from seeking re-election.

Leading up to the riot, Cawthorn repeated former President Trump’s false election fraud claims and spoke at a rally hours before the riot began. Opponents of Cawthorn say he engaged in the insurrection, which disqualifies him from office because it violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

“Running for office is not only a great privilege, it is a right protected under the Constitution,” Cawthorn said when filing his lawsuit. “I love this country and have never engaged in, or would ever engage in, an insurrection against the United States. Regardless of this fact, the Disqualification clause and North Carolina’s Challenge Statute is being used as a weapon by liberal Democrats to attempt to defeat our democracy by having state bureaucrats, rather than the People, choose who will represent North Carolina in Congress.”

So far, Rep. Cawthorn is planning to run for re-election.