The Question Of Trump's Eligibility
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case considering whether or not Donald Trump can be removed from the ballot in Colorado because of his role in the Jan. 6th insurrection. Most of the justices, including a number of the liberal justices, seemed convinced by at least one argument from the defense: that an individual state can't disqualify candidates in a national election without Congress specifically granting them that power. We’re joined by Melissa Murray, professor of law at NYU and co-host of Crooked’s Strict Scrutiny podcast, to learn more about the hearing and what comes next.
And in headlines: a Special Counsel report into President Biden’s handling of sensitive government documents cleared Biden of committing any crimes, the FCC said that it’s immediately outlawing robocalls that feature AI voices, and a high school football team from the town of Lahaina is headed to the Super Bowl this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, February 9th, I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm Priy Anra Bindi and this is What a Day, the podcast that is ready for Usher's |
| 0:08.8 | Super Bowl performance this weekend. |
| 0:11.2 | Yeah, you actually can't be as ready as me |
| 0:13.8 | because I'm from Atlanta? |
| 0:14.9 | No, I absolutely cannot be as ready as Josie, |
| 0:17.3 | but I'm ready in my own way. |
| 0:18.8 | And a non-Atlantic way. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready in my own way. |
| 0:21.0 | May still be emotionally preparing. It's's all right I'll be ready by |
| 0:23.6 | Sunday it's fine right. |
| 0:24.7 | Right. |
| 0:27.7 | On today's show a special counsel report into President Biden's handling of |
| 0:34.4 | sensitive government documents cleared Biden of committing any crimes. |
| 0:38.0 | Plus the Federal Communications Commission says that it's immediately outlawing |
| 0:41.9 | robocalls that feature AI voices. |
| 0:44.3 | But first, the Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in a case that considers whether |
| 0:48.6 | or not Trump can be removed from the ballot in Colorado for taking part in an insurrection. |
| 0:53.0 | It's one of the most important cases the court has heard in recent history, |
| 0:56.3 | not only because the stakes are so high, given it's Trump, |
| 0:59.2 | but also because it requires them to parse through some very rarely relevant sections of the Constitution. |
| 1:04.6 | Right. No one's looked at these sections in a hundred years. |
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