Colorado's ballot ruling won't let the Supreme Court avoid Trump
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
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Colorado's ballot ruling this week won't let the Supreme Court avoid Donald Trump. USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent John Fritze puts the moment in context.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app. Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday, December 21st, |
| 0:17.8 | 2023. This is the excerpt. Today we take a deeper dive the election mix. Plus there's been another delay to a UN vote regarding the |
| 0:34.3 | Israel-Hamass war and we'll learn about kid-gun influencers. Colorado Supreme Court |
| 0:41.0 | ruled this week that former President Donald Trump is |
| 0:43.8 | disqualified from the state's primary ballot next year. I spoke with USA Today |
| 0:48.2 | Supreme Court correspondent John Fritzy about the ruling and how it now throws |
| 0:52.3 | the US High Court into a legal fight with the potential to shake up next year's election. |
| 0:57.5 | John, thanks for hopping on. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, Taylor. |
| 1:00.0 | So John, let's just start with the latest from this Colorado ruling. |
| 1:04.0 | What exactly did the Colorado court decide earlier this week? |
| 1:07.5 | You know, a bunch of courts have looked at this issue and they've all decided that this wasn't really worth getting into and allowed |
| 1:15.3 | Trump to stay on the ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court is the first really to |
| 1:20.3 | come out this way and to rule not only that Trump's actions on January 6, 2021 amounted to |
| 1:28.5 | inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol, but also that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution bars him from being |
| 1:36.7 | in office again, and because of that, it bars the state of Colorado from placing him on the ballot. |
| 1:43.6 | You know, it's a real blockbuster kind of decision and I think part of why it's so important is that |
| 1:50.7 | it cues it up for the Supreme Court, right? The next court of |
| 1:54.2 | appeals is the Supreme Court and this is an issue that's been floating around now |
| 1:59.2 | for months and now there's a good chance we're finally going to get an answer on whether this is a real legal theory or not. |
| 2:08.0 | So John, what kind of pressure does this now put on the US Supreme Court? |
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