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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: History will remember SCOTUS calling Trump an 'oathbreaking insurrectionist'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Washington, Policy, Politics, President, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Congress, Versant, Senate, Government

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can stay on the Colorado ballot. Also, former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury. Plus, Vice President Harris calls for an “immediate” six-week Gaza ceasefire. And Republicans block a Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments. Laurence Tribe, Andrew Weissmann, David Rothkopf, and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, yesterday's Republican primary had what has become the standard vote split of 63 percent to 33 percent, but this time

0:10.0

Nicky Haley got the 63 percent and Donald Trump got the 33%. It was in the smallest Republican primary so far.

0:19.3

It was in Washington, D.C. where in a city of 700,000 people, exactly 676 of them voted for Donald

0:31.1

Trump. The reason that tiny vote is significant

0:35.0

is that Donald Trump's jury pool for Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump,

0:40.0

for alleged crimes leading up to and on January 6th will be taken.

0:46.1

That jury pool will be taken from those 700,000 people who spent yesterday not voting

0:52.1

for Donald Trump. The odds of one of the 676 Republicans who

0:58.1

did vote for Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. yesterday ending up on his jury there are worse than your odds with any lottery

1:07.0

ticket you could buy anywhere. The most important Washington D.C. voters for Donald Trump though are of course the

1:16.6

nine voters on the United States Supreme Court and today all nine of them

1:21.1

agreed that Donald Trump who three of the justices called an oath-breaking

1:26.5

insurrectionist, cannot be barred from presidential ballots by individual states on the basis of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

1:36.5

And Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, as most of you know by now, bars anyone who took an oath of office and then engaged in insurrection from ever holding

1:48.5

office again.

1:49.5

Donald Trump's lawyers lost on several arguments that they presented to the court.

1:54.0

They argued that the presidency is not an office.

1:57.9

The Supreme Court ignored that argument.

2:00.8

The Trump lawyers argued that the president is not an officer of the

2:04.5

government. The Supreme Court ignored that argument and most importantly, the

2:09.5

Trump lawyers argued that Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection and that the attack

2:16.3

on the capital was not an insurrection. The Supreme Court ignored that argument and left standing, the finding by the Colorado

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