The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

• J. Christian Adams—President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision preventing state’s from barring Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from state ballots. Adams and the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a brief in the case. You can learn more about PILF here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/about/
• In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot bar Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from participating in the 2024 election—and, consequently, he cannot be removed from state ballots. Only Congress, according to the Court, is capable of enforcing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, barring an individual guilty of participating in an insurrection from holding elected office. In the main opinion, the Justices write that “the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates…The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made. The relevant provision is Section 5, which enables Congress, subject of course to judicial review, to pass ‘appropriate legislation’ to ‘enforce’ the Fourteenth Amendment…The ‘patchwork’ that would likely result from state enforcement would ‘sever the direct link that the Framers found so critical between the National Government and the people of the United States’ as a whole.” You can read the court’s full decision here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/04/us/supreme-court-ruling-trump-colorado.html
• Charlie Savage of The New York Times writes: “In criticizing the majority for unnecessarily dismissing other potential ways federal officials might enforce Section 3 besides a congressional statute, the three liberal justices [Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson] do not specify what those alternative methods might be. But when it comes to presidents, one obvious alternative would be that when Congress meets to certify electoral college votes on the Jan. 6 after an election, lawmakers could refuse to count electoral college votes won by a candidate they deemed disqualified under Section 3—even without a statute. Justice [Amy Coney] Barrett, in her separate opinion, also says it was enough to rule that states lack the power to enforce Section 3 against presidential candidates and there was no need ‘to address the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced.’” You can read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/04/us/trump-supreme-court-colorado-ballot/31379f62-f91f-57f7-a33e-37959bc68452?smid=url-share
• On Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, NBC elections analyst Steve Kornacki said to expect Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley to get buried in a “delegate avalanche” on Super Tuesday—as frontrunner Donald Trump, according to all available polling, is expected to continue his run of electoral dominance.
• While appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to confirm there was “a breakdown in the system” which prevented New York City from notifying the federal government of the previously arrested undocumented migrant who went on to murder 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia.