The Supreme Court Hands Trump A Legal And Political Win
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
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The decision also says individual states cannot bar candidates for federal office under the insurrection clause. So: a legal victory, and also a political victory.
As the clock ticks toward November 5th – Election day – it's increasingly looking like the many legal cases focused on former President Trump may tip his way, or remain unresolved.
What impact will this have on Trump's campaign for a second term in the White House?
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| 0:00.0 | So I reviewed very carefully the hearing proceedings and the weight of the |
| 0:07.1 | evidence presented to me at the hearing. |
| 0:10.3 | And that is Maine Secretary of State Shinnabelos speaking with my colleague Scott Dettro earlier this year. |
| 0:16.4 | In Maine under our election laws, the only recourse for the voters seeking to challenge Mr. Trump's qualifications was to bring that |
| 0:25.9 | challenge to the Secretary of State to me and I was required to do my job to hold a |
| 0:31.6 | hearing to review the evidence and issue a decision and that begins |
| 0:36.2 | the process in our state. Bellows was discussing her decision to remove |
| 0:40.7 | former President Trump from Maine's 2024 Republican primary ballot. |
| 0:46.0 | Maine voters had challenged his name on the ballot based on the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, |
| 0:52.0 | a post-civil war law, it states that people who |
| 0:55.1 | engaged in insurrection or rebellion should be disqualified from office. |
| 1:00.1 | And that evidence made clear, first first that those events of January 6, 2021 and we all witnessed them. |
| 1:08.0 | They were unprecedented, they were tragic. |
| 1:11.7 | But they were an attack not only upon the capital and government officials, but also an attack on the rule of law on the peaceful transfer of power. |
| 1:21.0 | The decision in Maine, and also Colorado, were both challenged by the Trump campaign, challenges that went all the way to the US Supreme Court. |
| 1:31.0 | Do you think the US Supreme Court needs to take this question up? |
| 1:34.4 | We would certainly welcome the United States Supreme Court to make this clear. |
| 1:40.3 | And this morning, the Supreme Court did make it clear. |
| 1:43.2 | We come on the air with breaking news from the Supreme Court. |
| 1:46.0 | The Supreme Court has just handed down that historic ruling concerning |
| 1:49.2 | columnals. |
| 1:50.2 | Former President Donald Trump can appear on the 2024 ballot. |
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