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2/2: #SCOTUS: The Colorado Case and the question of "self-executing" Fourteenth Amendment. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

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2/2: #SCOTUS: The Colorado Case and the question of "self-executing" Fourteenth Amendment. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/despite-us-supreme-court-appeal-trump-certified-as-candidate-on-colorado-gop-ballot/ar-AA1mwXqy

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For details. I'm John Bax with my friend and colleague Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution

0:39.2

writing and defining ideas about the case now before the Supreme Court for oral arguments as I

0:44.4

understand. The question raised does the Colorado Supreme Court have the

0:49.2

authority to ban Donald Trump's name from the primary ballot in Colorado.

0:54.9

We can presume that if he's banned from the primary ballot,

0:57.3

he will not be on the national election ballot.

0:59.4

That's a presumption.

1:00.7

However, the Supreme Court says that it will hear oral arguments.

1:04.0

The professor has written for defining ideas of first self-executing, what does that mean?

1:09.0

Declare someone an insurrectionist.

1:11.0

Does that mean just like declare somebody 33 years old and therefore

1:15.9

cannot be president? And then we come to enforcement. What do you mean by

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enforcement professor? Well what happens is you have this particular provisions and there's least back in 1865 to the 1875.

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