Senator Colorado banned Donald Trump from the ballot. A bunch of other states

decided they want to do the exact same thing and now this is all going to the

Supreme Court. We thought it was appropriate to spend some serious time on the

podcast today talking about this issue. Why was Colorado chosen to be that the

case that would go to the Supreme Court over the other states that had also done the same thing

because Trump's team and they had options here.

Why was it Colorado and what does this mean moving forward?

Well Colorado was really the only option. We have two decisions. We have Colorado and Maine.

Colorado was a decision from the state Supreme Court. It was a decision that was 4.3.

And a decision from a state Supreme Court can be appealed to the US Supreme Court.

What happened in Maine was it was a decision from the Secretary of State, so it was an individual, it was not a

court that decided it was the Secretary of State. Secretary of State is not a

lawyer. She is not an elected official by the people, she is elected by the state legislature in Maine

she made a determination the next step in Maine is for that to be challenged in Maine

judicial court in in state court. So you can't appeal from the main Secretary of State to the U.S. Supreme Court.

So the only option was in essence Colorado

Colorado was the only option appeals to the Supreme Court as a general matter lie

either from state Supreme Courts or lie from federal courts of appeal and so the way the

courts work you have a federal system and you have a state system typically both

are set up with trial courts, intermediate appellate courts, and then the Supreme Court.

And so in the state you have typically a trial court, an intermediate appellate court, the Supreme

Court, and from the state Supreme Court, you can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, from the state Supreme Court you can appeal to the US Supreme Court

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