Supreme Court seems ready to keep Trump on the ballot
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
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The Supreme Court seemed prepared to keep Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot Thursday, expressing concern about a single state disqualifying a candidate from seeking national office. Today on the show, we break down what we heard and what it means.
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in former president Donald Trump’s appeal of a Colorado ruling to remove him from the state’s 2024 primary ballot because of his role in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
We break down what we heard with Supreme Court reporter Ann Marimow and politics reporter Amber Phillips.
Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy, Emma Talkoff and Ted Muldoon, who also mixed the show. It was edited by Maggie Penman. Thank you to Debbi Wilgoren.
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| 0:00.0 | Remove Trump. |
| 0:07.0 | Remove Trump. |
| 0:10.0 | Remove Trump. Remove Trump. Remove Trump. This morning people were lined up outside the Supreme Court to listen to oral arguments in a historic case |
| 0:19.7 | one that tests whether Donald Trump can stay on the ballot in Colorado and potentially |
| 0:25.3 | the rest of the country. |
| 0:27.7 | People showed up for all different reasons. |
| 0:30.0 | My name is Shelly Felton. |
| 0:31.5 | I am here because I want to witness a historical moment. |
| 0:35.9 | Yes, we can listen to the oral arguments online, |
| 0:39.0 | but it's different to be in the room. |
| 0:42.3 | Some came to support Trump, like Richard Thong. |
| 0:45.0 | The people should be able to decide who they want to vote for. |
| 0:47.8 | It's not right for one state to decide, |
| 0:50.3 | hey, this guy cannot be on the ballot because I'm in Texas if you put it |
| 0:55.0 | but Trump can't be on there we're gonna say in Texas you can't put Biden on it. |
| 0:59.2 | Trump is a traitor! Trump is a traitor! But they all agreed. This could be a defining moment for the country. The most |
| 1:08.5 | consequential case involving a presidential election since Bush v Gore in 2000. |
| 1:15.0 | Supreme Court reporter Anne Merrimo was inside the courtroom, |
| 1:19.1 | and we caught up with her just after oral arguments ended. This is such a high stakes consequential case, deciding whether or not Donald Trump is barred |
| 1:27.7 | from running for office again by the single court decision and has major consequences. |
| 1:35.0 | Colorado's highest court had ruled that Trump committed insurrection on January 6, 2021, |
| 1:41.0 | and therefore was disqualified from running for office again. |
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