Today we're going to talk about the chances of Trump being disqualified from the ballot after the latest court ruling.

And I interview former Obama speech writer and host of Potsy of America, John Favreau, about whether a conviction would mean Trump is no longer viable as a candidate, whether we should

be worried about Biden's low poll numbers and the impact he thinks a third-party

candidate would have on the election. I'm Brian Teller Cohen and you're

listening to no lie. We've now got the ruling from the Colorado case that was brought by the Watchdog Group

crew to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot based on section 3 of the 14th

amendment which prohibits anyone from holding office if they engaged in

insurrection or gave aid or comfort to those who have engaged in insurrection.

The judge, Sarah Wallace, ruled that Donald Trump, quote, engaged in insurrection

on January 6, 2021 through incitement and that the First Amendment

does not protect Trump's speech. But in that same ruling, she also found that the 14th

Amendment's insurrection ban does not apply to presidents and therefore she

rejected the effort to remove

Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado. So obviously two major

findings here first that he did engage in insurrection and second that it doesn't

apply to presidents but I want to focus on the second one,

that section 3 of the 14th Amendment doesn't apply.

So first, here's what Judge Wallace wrote.

Quote, after considering the arguments on both sides,

the court is persuaded that officers of the United States

did not include the President of the United States.

It appears to the court that for whatever reason the drafters of Section 3 did not intend to

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