From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Tuesday, March 5th.

Happy Super Tuesday, if it is a happy Super Tuesday, it's a happy Super Tuesday for Donald Trump and those who support him in Colorado,

one of the 15 states voting today. You know that the news broke yesterday during yesterday's show,

in fact, that the Supreme Court ruled nine to nothing that Colorado cannot remove Trump from the

presidential ballot just because he caused an insurrection,

that little thing that's covered in the insurrection clause of the Constitution.

But here's an aspect of that ruling that I think has been undercover so far.

None of the nine justices disputed the finding of the Colorado courts that Trump engaged in an insurrection.

Maybe they just didn't need to take a position on that in order to come to their conclusion,

or maybe their silence is more meaningful than that and suggests the strength of the January 6th-related criminal charges against Trump.

We have the perfect guests to answer that question

and talk more broadly about the intersection of criminal accountability and the presidential

election now. NYU law professors, Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissman. They have a new book

called The Trump Indictments, the historic documents with commentary.

And it's exactly what the title says.

The actual text of the four criminal indictments against Trump annotated with commentary.

Those four indictments are in the federal election fraud case, the Jack Smith case.

The Georgia election bullying case, find 11,000 votes, remember that,

plus the classified documents case, and from here in New York, the campaign finance fraud

charges connected to the Stormy Daniels Hush money.

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