This is the mop-up for March 5th.

2024, I'm David Feldman coming to you from New York City.

Thank you so much for finding me.

It came as no surprise on Monday the United States Supreme Court

overturned the Colorado State Supreme Court, which

had ruled that Donald Trump's name be removed from the Colorado state ballot, citing Section

3 of the 14th Amendment, which says anyone who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and then

participated in an insurrection cannot hold

elective office. But on Monday, the Supreme Court overturned that Colorado court's ruling,

thus also invalidating similar rulings in Maine and Illinois, where officials said they wanted to scrub Trump's name from the ballot pending our Supreme Court's ruling.

Up until Monday's ruling, 32 other states were fielding 14th Amendment challenges to disqualify Trump from their ballots, all those suits will now be tossed out

after the court's nine to zero unanimous ruling. That's right, all nine voted. Clarence Thomas

failed to recuse himself despite the overwhelming evidence that his wife,

Ginny, played a key role encouraging the Trump White House to stop the counting of votes

on January 6. The ruling was simultaneously narrow and overreaching. Narrow. Narrow in that the court didn't rule

on whether January 6 was in fact an insurrection, or if Donald Trump led or participated in it.

The court stayed away from the First Amendment issue as to whether Donald Trump's speech

on the ellipse that day constituted a call to arms.

It also steered clear from attempting to resolve the semantics of whether the president of

the United States is considered an office holder and therefore subject

to the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. Instead, the court said states lack the authority

to remove a candidate for federal office from their individual ballots.

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