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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday January 6th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Trump's appeal over the Colorado

ballot dispute. Plus we look at the impact of January 6th on this year's

campaigns and how owning a pet might help slow the cognitive decline among

some older people.

We start today's show with a slate of court and political news, beginning with the Supreme Court

announcement yesterday that it will decide

whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the primary ballot in Colorado.

The court's decision to grant the case came days after Trump appealed a decision from Colorado's top court,

which ruled that Trump was ineligible for another term because of his role connected to the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol Riot.

The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments for February 8th,

an unusually quick turnaround that will allow the court

to decide the issue before most states hold their primaries. Whatever the Supreme Court decides in Colorado

will likely have repercussions in other states. Today is the third anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Joe Biden marked the anniversary yesterday by going after Donald Trump

his potential general election

rival later this year.

Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him

to overturn the election, every one.

But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth that I had won the election and he was a loser.

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