1/2: #SCOTUS: The Colorado Case and the question of a "self-executing" Fourteenth Amendment. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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1/2: #SCOTUS: The Colorado Case and the question of a "self-executing" Fourteenth Amendment. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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| 0:38.2 | Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for the presidency 2024. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the |
| 0:45.1 | Hoover Institution teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago, writing for |
| 0:49.5 | defining ideas about questions at hand. I read from the Atlantic within these last hours, George |
| 0:54.8 | Conway. Donald Trump is well in its way to becoming history's greatest litigation |
| 0:59.0 | loser ever. But in the multi-front war of Trump versus seemingly everyone else, he has just prevailed in one small skirmish, the battle of the questions presented. |
| 1:09.0 | Late Friday afternoon, just hours before this moment, the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 1:14.8 | agreed to review the Supreme Court of Colorado's decision that held Trump ineligible to serve |
| 1:21.3 | again as president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the |
| 1:26.1 | provision barring insurrectionists from public office. I end there because Richard |
| 1:32.4 | has thoughts about this in terms of what what are the |
| 1:36.6 | available interpretations of section 3 remember this was written at a time |
| 1:41.4 | following the Civil War when the question at hand was citizenship |
| 1:46.6 | for some of the enslaved peoples of the South, some males, and the question what to do with the Confederate office holders, generals, bad actors who |
| 1:59.4 | rebelled against the United States and were seeking entrance again into the United States and we're seeking entrance again into the United States |
| 2:04.6 | as power corridors as congressmen as senators as governors from the |
| 2:09.4 | rebellious states that was when it was written, Richard, a very good evening to you. As I understand it, the section 3 has become a major piece of dispute between scholars such as yourself and between judges who are to find |
| 2:29.4 | whether it does or does not apply, will presume that it applies in this instance and the language |
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