This is the Tom Hartman program.

Hey, they're arguing before the Supreme Court right now whether Donald Trump should be allowed to stay on the ballot.

I've got a good recap for you on that

but Shannon Stevenson right now is the Solicitor General for the state of

Colorado. Of course Colorado's Supreme Court was who said Trump does not qualify to be on the

ballot because he led her an insurrection and her testimony I think is

fascinating is fairly straightforward there's been a lot of really technical stuff

that I wouldn't just throw away at you and put on the air. But I do want to play

this live just for a little bit just to get a sense of what Shannon Stevenson the solicitor general she's

making the argument Trump should not be on the ballot here it is arises to that

this is John Roberts by the way the Chief Justice is questioning her.

About one person having a set of facts that they said prove this would send this case to the

113 procedure that we use to resolve ballot challenge issues like that.

And if another elector or the individual who brought the information didn't want to bring it,

the Secretary herself could bring that action.

Is there provision for judicial review of the Secretary of State's action, both in Colorado

and perhaps what you know about other states?

Well, certainly in Colorado, any action that the Secretary takes that anyone wants to challenge they can use

the 113 process to do so. I think states have varying degrees of that. There's

certainly other states that allow versions of that and then I don't know

whether there are others that are don't I certainly

know that there are some that do. I think we're told that there are states that do not

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