The And then. Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. It's not too

late to say happy new year, is it? The paperly mandated two guests today.

Law, Prof and Historian Samuel Moyne will talk about the legal and political issues around

attempts to exclude Donald Trump for the presidential ballot and the journalist Alex Press

will review the year in labor.

It was a pretty good one. Several weeks ago the

Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was ineligible to appear in

that state's presidential ballot in November because of his role in the

January 6th 2021 riot at the Capitol. It based this decision on

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which says in part,

no person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of

president or vice president or hold any office. or representative in Congress or elector of President or

or hold any office civil or military under the United States

or under any state who having previously taken an oath to support the

Constitution of the United States shall have engaged an insurrection or

rebellion against the same.

The insurrection the passage refers to was the Civil War, which uncontrovertially qualifies

as an insurrection.

Was January 6th comparable? And more relevantly was

Trump's role in January 6 comparable? Or is this part of a ploy by Democrats to

block Trump's nomination because they fear losing to what Spy magazine used to call

the short-fingered Bulgarian. Certainly the latest poll show those fears to be

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