Higher Courts Take On the Legality of Trump and the Presidency
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Colorado Supreme Court has heard oral arguments on whether the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause means Trump will have his name taken off the presidential ballot. Glenn reviews some of the arguments made by the parties and highlights some of the absurd positions taken by Trump's lawyers. For example: they are claiming that the January 6th attack on the US Capitol wasn't really an insurrection because "it only lasted three hours" or because "it only targeted one building." Then, the DC federal circuit court of appeals largely affirmed the gag order Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed on Donald Trump, trying to address his dangerous speech and posts. The unanimous appellate court ruling stated, “Mr. Trump’s documented pattern of speech and its demonstrated real-time, real-world consequences pose a significant and imminent threat to the functioning of the criminal trial process in this case.” The court opinion also noted that many of the individuals Trump verbally attacked “have been subjected to a torrent of threats and intimidation from his supporters.” Glenn says perhaps the most encouraging sentence in the entire 68-page opinion is the following: "In this case, the general election is almost a year away and will long postdate the trial in this case."
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. The Colorado Supreme Court has heard arguments regarding whether Donald Trump should be removed from the state ballot for engaging in insurrection. |
| 0:23.7 | Glenn says, now it's a waiting game. |
| 0:27.5 | So friends, the Colorado Supreme Court heard arguments today |
| 0:31.5 | as to whether Donald Trump should be barred, prohibited from being on |
| 0:36.8 | the Colorado State ballot for the 2024 presidential election. |
| 0:43.2 | Now recall that Colorado Judge Sarah Wallace |
| 0:47.6 | ruled after a trial that Donald Trump did in fact engage in insurrection, |
| 0:55.0 | but Judge Wallace concluded that the 14th Amendment's disqualification of insurrectionists might not include the office of the presidency? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, both Donald Trump and the voters of Colorado who brought the suit have appealed to the |
| 1:15.8 | Colorado Supreme Court and here is the new reporting this from Politico about |
| 1:22.4 | today's argument before the Colorado Supreme Court. |
| 1:26.8 | Headline, Colorado's top court offers few hints on whether it will remove Trump from ballot. |
| 1:34.9 | And that article begins, the Colorado Supreme Court |
| 1:38.0 | spent two hours on Wednesday debating |
| 1:40.6 | Donald Trump's role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, |
| 1:45.9 | but the court gave little indication of how it will rule on the ultimate question before it, |
| 1:52.8 | whether Trump's actions that day preclude him |
| 1:56.0 | from running for president in 2024. |
| 1:59.8 | Several of the court's seven justices, all Democratic appointees, appeared to agree, at least, |
| 2:07.7 | with the trial court's conclusion that the January 6th attack amounted to an insurrection. |
| 2:14.7 | They sharply questioned the contention from Trump's lawyer |
| 2:18.4 | that the violence didn't last long enough, cover a wide enough area, or involve enough |
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