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Anderson Cooper 360

Supreme Court keeps Trump on Colorado ballot, rejecting 14th Amendment challenge

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court rejected a 14th amendment challenge and ruled former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado, a massive victory for the 2024 frontrunner for the GOP nomination. But, the high court’s opinion doesn’t directly address whether Trump’s actions on January 6 qualified as an “insurrection” – skirting an issue that the courts in Colorado had wrestled with. Plus, CNN's David Culver reports on the gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti that’s led to a state of emergency.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360 is a supremely favorable day for Donald Trump. The high court

0:06.8

says he can stay on Colorado's ballot and every other state's too. Also tonight

0:11.2

with most Americans saying Joe Biden's too old to serve four more years,

0:15.0

we'll talk to a reporter who spoke at length with the president and he'll detail the

0:19.0

Biden he saw.

0:20.5

And later, some rare reporting from inside Haiti where armed gangs rule the streets and civil society is coming apart at the scenes

0:27.8

Good evening everyone. Thanks for your time. John King sitting in for Anderson tonight

0:30.9

We begin with one certain thing.

0:33.0

Donald J. Trump will be on the ballot in all 50 states.

0:36.2

The Supreme Court today making it a reality and making history, settling an issue that's

0:40.8

been unclear since reconstruction.

0:42.9

All nine justices deciding that neither Colorado nor any other state can bar him

0:47.2

under the 14th Amendment section 3 insurrection language.

0:50.4

Quoting from the opinion, quote, we conclude that states may disqualify persons

0:54.8

holding or attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the Constitution

1:00.0

to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency.

1:05.2

The opinion was per curiam, meaning not attributed to any specific justice.

1:09.6

However, in a concurrence that you might say reads more like a dissent

1:13.0

justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Kataji Brown Jackson,

1:17.0

take issue with the ruling's broadness,

1:18.8

which they suggest is to, quote, insulate this court

1:22.3

and petitioner from future controversy.

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