The question of whether former President Donald Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado

is in the hands of the Supreme Court.

On that, and the other political issues driving the start of the new year, we turn to the analysis

of Brooks and K Kpart. That is

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Kapart, associate editor for

the Washington Post. Good to see you both. So big news we have the

Supreme Court deciding today they will consider former

President Trump's appeal of the Colorado State Supreme Court decision to

remove him from the ballot there that was on the basis of the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.

This Jonathan puts the highest court in the land squarely in the center of one of the hottest

political battles this year. What's your reaction to them taking this case up and how it's going to

unfold? They have to take it up because this is one of those questions. This

this ballot access question, primary ballot access question, and the immunity question has never been tested in in our

lifetimes or in in recent memory and the fact that Colorado and Maine have booted him

from the ballot.

Illinois is trying to join the effort.

Minnesota and one other state that skips, Michigan,

have said no. You have a patchwork of state decisions.

And I think the prosecutor who you had on earlier

makes a good point.

What we have to look for now is whether the Supreme Court does a big

broad universal decision or goes very, very narrow. and strict originalist interpretation.

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