PREVIEW: From a conversation with Richard Epstein of Hoover re the SCOTUS decision to hear oral arguments on February 8 on the Colorao Supreme Court decision, 4-3, to label Donald J. Trump an insurrectionist and therefore inelgible to be POTUS. Said to b
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
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| 0:20.1 | This is John Bachelor. What follows is an excerpt from a conversation with Professor Richard Epstein, Senior |
| 0:26.1 | Fellow at the Hoover Institution, teaches law at the University of Chicago and NYU, about the |
| 0:32.4 | Supreme Court decision to hear a case based upon the decision 4-3 |
| 0:38.0 | by the Colorado Supreme Court that forbids Donald Trump's name to be included in the primary ballot for the Republican Party in Colorado. |
| 0:47.0 | The question is, based upon 14th Amendment, Section 3, especially the word insurrection, |
| 0:56.3 | insurrectionist. |
| 0:58.0 | The professor comments on that. |
| 0:59.6 | He also comments on Michael Luteg, a conservative former judge on the Fourth Circuit, US Court of Appeals, who along with |
| 1:07.7 | Lawrence Tribe is published in the Atlantic an article in which they're very confidently certain that Donald Trump is not eligible |
| 1:16.9 | to be president of the United States or to run for the presidency because of the |
| 1:22.1 | word insurrection. Richard speaks of this matter in terms |
| 1:26.5 | of the concept of self-executing. Does being an insurrection is self-execute? you don't need to be condemned by anyone else. |
| 1:35.3 | You are ineligible to be an officer in the United States to run for office, self-executing. |
| 1:42.2 | Richard gives an example of age being self-executing when it comes |
| 1:46.3 | to eligibility for the presidency. Here's Richard Epstein, commenting on not just Michael Lutted, but the whole argument that Donald Trump |
| 1:57.0 | is not eligible and that he cannot go to the voters because he was part of an insurrection. |
| 2:04.7 | Much more of this later. |
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