‘Supreme Court justices must have their track suits on’: arguments in Trump ballot eligibility begins

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a consequential case that will determine Donald Trump’s eligibility to remain on the ballot. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans kill the bipartisan border bill after Trump opposes it. Self-inflicted GOP defeats fuel dysfunction on Capitol Hill. Ankush Khardori, Carol Leonnig, Jon Allen, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Mike Zamore, Maria T Kumar, Reed Galen, and Neil Irwin join.

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0:00.0	Tonight looking ahead to tomorrow's case before the Supreme Court on whether or not
0:06.0	Donald Trump's name can appear on Colorado's ballot and a chaotic week on Capitol Hill
0:11.6	and it is only Wednesday with Republican dysfunction and its
0:15.7	impact on actual governing. Then despite all the good news we'll take a look
0:20.5	at why Americans are so feeling the blues as the 11th hour gets underway on
0:25.2	this Wednesday night.
0:27.0	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule. Lucky me live from Washington DC and we are
0:36.7	now 272 days away from Election Day and in 11 hours from now,
0:43.0	the Supreme Court will hear arguments
0:44.8	in a case that could upend the presidential race
0:47.4	as we know it.
0:48.4	In December, the Colorado Supreme Court
0:50.4	sided with the argument that Donald Trump cannot be on the 2024 ballot
0:55.6	citing the 14th Amendment. Part of that amendment says that if as a sworn
1:00.7	officer of the US government, you engaged in insurrection, you cannot hold federal
1:05.4	office again. Attorneys for Colorado plaintiffs say this is an easy call.
1:10.9	Donald Trump is disqualified today. He was disqualified on January 6th, 2021, when he engaged
1:19.0	on that. He disqualified himself under our Constitution. It's not our plaintiffs who are seeking to do that.
1:25.0	Trump of course appealed the Colorado decision, sending it to the Supreme Court.
1:31.0	Trump himself is not expected to attend tomorrow's arguments,
1:34.9	which are expected to last at least 80 minutes.
1:37.9	This is the most consequential case
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