The Supreme Court Rules that States CAN'T Disqualify Insurrectionists from their Ballot
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The United States Supreme Court has dealt American democracy a gut-punch, ruling that state election authorities CANNOT keep an insurrectionist off the state presidential primary ballot... even after a state trial court and State Supreme Court ruled that a person HAD engaged in insurrection against the U. S.
But all is not lost: the Supreme Court said there's a remedy . . . Congress can legislate and come up with a statutory scheme by which insurrectionists CAN be kept out of federal office. What are the real-world implications of this kind of Supreme Court ruling? The court puts the disqualification issue in the hands of people like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (who fought to have Donald Trump remain in office in 2020 contrary the the expressed will of the American voters), and in the hands of people like Jim Jordan and James Comer and Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene. These are the people the Supreme Court has empowered to disqualify insurrections from holding federal office.
But let's not forget, several members of Congress sought presidential pardons for their conduct on and around January 6th, 2021, supporting the inference that they, themselves, are insurrectionists. Do we really expect them to work against their own interest in retaining power? Glenn reviews the folly of today's Supreme Court ruling.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. The Supreme Court has cleared the way for insurrectionists like Donald Trump to hold federal |
| 0:21.0 | office again. |
| 0:22.0 | Glenn says that's going to leave a mark on our democracy. |
| 0:26.4 | Well friends, I'm sure you've heard by now. |
| 0:28.8 | The Supreme Court just ruled that states cannot disqualify insurrectionist Donald Trump from being on |
| 0:37.9 | state primary ballots in the presidential race. Well, let's start with some of the new reporting. |
| 0:45.0 | Let's then review just a little bit of today's Supreme Court ruling, |
| 0:51.0 | and then let's turn to the most important question. |
| 0:55.3 | What are the real world consequences and implications of what the Supreme Court just did to American Democracy. |
| 1:05.0 | Because what they did was they cleared the way |
| 1:10.0 | for an adjudicated insurrectionist Donald Trump to again be president of the United States. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's start with the new reporting. This from NBC News headline, Supreme Court rules |
| 1:28.1 | states can't kick Trump off the ballot. And that article begins, |
| 1:34.0 | the Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping win |
| 1:37.0 | to former President Donald Trump |
| 1:39.0 | by ruling that states cannot kick him off the ballot over his actions leading up to the January 6th |
| 1:46.7 | attack on the Capitol bringing a swift end to a case with huge implications for the 2024 election. |
| 1:55.0 | In an unsigned ruling with no dissents, |
| 1:59.0 | the court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court, |
| 2:02.0 | which had determined that Trump could not serve |
| 2:05.4 | again as president under Section 3 of the Constitution's 14th Amendment. |
| 2:11.2 | Pretty straightforward, friends. |
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