Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navas on the news hour tonight.

The Supreme Court rules that states cannot remove former President Donald Trump from

their presidential ballots. Vice President Kamala Harris calls for an

immediate ceasefire in Gaza as negotiations to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas continue.

And our new series on America's social safety net begins with a look at how the system

began, the political fights over the last 90 years, and where it stands today.

A majority of Americans, something approaching 60 percent, depending on when you measure,

and how you measure,

we'll experience poverty at some point in their lifetime. Welcome to the news hour. The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the 14th Amendment does not allow

individual states to remove former President Donald Trump from their ballots.

In an unsigned opinion, the court said only that Congress not states can disqualify presidential

candidates under the Constitution's so-called insurrection clause.

The former president celebrated the decision.

Essentially you cannot take somebody out of a race because an opponent would like to have it that way.

And it has nothing to do with the fact that it's the leading candidate, whether it was the leading candidate or a

candidate that was well down on the totem pole, you cannot take somebody out of a race.

And William Bringham joins us now, so William, the Court was unequivocal.

States do not have the power to remove federal candidates from the ballot under the insurrection

clause.

Help us understand how the justices arrived at this ruling.

Remember, Jeff, this came out of a group of Republican voters

in Colorado saying that January 6th to their mind

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