Good morning. It's Saturday, November the 18th. I'm Alec Velshi. We begin this morning with breaking news in the battle over Donald Trump's eligibility to run for president next year.

A Colorado judge issued a ruling just hours ago that appears to be a victory for Donald Trump.

The judge declined to disqualify and

remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot on the basis that Trump engaged in

insurrection. The question of Trump's eligibility to run for president again was vaulted

into the public discourse back in August when two of the most revered legal minds of our time, Harvard's Lawrence

Tribe and the retired conservative federal judge, J. Michael Ludig, declared that the Constitution

prohibits Trump from ever being president again based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Since then, there's been movement in courts in multiple states where efforts have sprung up to

enforce the 14th Amendment. One case seeking to disqualify Trump was dismissed by the Minnesota

Supreme Court, but that case was specific to Trump being on the primary election ballot for

the Republican nomination, so the argument could be brought before the court again for the general

election ballot.

In another case, in Michigan, a judge ruled that it was a non-justiciable political issue

that should be decided by Congress, not by the state.

Just yesterday, the petitioners appealed that ruling to the Michigan Supreme Court.

But this ruling out of Colorado is particularly interesting because the opinion goes further than

any of the other judges have been willing to venture so far.

The headline out of the Colorado ruling is that Trump succeeded in remaining on the ballot.

But a close reading of the ruling reveals that this is far from

a victory for the former president. In order to make the case that the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

could potentially disqualify Trump on the basis that he engaged in an insurrection, the judge

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