Judge keeps Trump on Colorado 2024 ballot
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Outfront, next. Breaking news, a ruling from the Colorado judge on whether to disqualify Trump from running in the state. Also breaking powerful explosions rocking northern Gaza, Israel now warning it will strike anywhere Hamas is found as Hamas releases a new hostage video. A new video of House Speaker Mike Johnson making anti-gay comments |
| 0:22.2 | just weeks before he was elected speaker. This is we are learning more about his wife's |
| 0:26.5 | ultra-conservative and anti-gay views. Let's go out front. And good evening, I'm Aaron Burnett, |
| 0:33.7 | and we begin out front on this Friday with breaking news. A judge seconds ago just ruling on whether former President Trump should be kicked off the ballot in the state of Colorado. Judge Sarah Rollis deciding that Trump is eligible to run for president even after his role in the January 6th insurrection. A group of voters had filed a lawsuit and this was based specifically on the 14th Amendment. |
| 0:55.4 | They argued that that amendment would bar Trump from federal office. |
| 0:59.8 | A judge, though, ruling the other way. |
| 1:02.7 | As I said just seconds ago, a team of reporters standing by to go through the details on this breaking news as we get it. |
| 1:09.4 | Lucy Kaffinoff is out front in Denver. |
| 1:11.1 | Evan Perez is in Washington. And Evan, as I said seconds ago, I haven't had a chance to read |
| 1:16.2 | 102 pages. You've had a chance to see a little bit more of it than I have. But what do we need to know? |
| 1:22.6 | The bottom line, Aaron, is that the judge, Judge Sarah Wallace, is ordering that Donald Trump's name will appear |
| 1:29.3 | on the ballot in Colorado. This is a ruling that she just came down. And the bottom line for the |
| 1:37.3 | judge is that the 14th Amendment, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which is what these voters |
| 1:43.7 | were seeking to have enforced, they say, the judgeth Amendment, which is what these voters were seeking to have enforced, they say, |
| 1:47.5 | the judge is saying it's not clear that this applies to the President of the United States |
| 1:52.5 | or that the President of the United States is covered by that section of the 14th Amendment. |
| 1:58.8 | It's not clear that the framers, the writers of that section |
| 2:03.2 | of the Constitution intended for that to apply |
| 2:07.0 | to the President of the United States. |
| 2:08.7 | And I'll read you just a part of what the 14th Amendment says. |
| 2:14.0 | It says that anyone who previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an officer |
| 2:19.3 | in the United States or as an executive and a judicial officer of any state to support the |
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