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You know, it's a modest decision if they say well all we're going to do is say

states can't enforce section 3 against presidential candidates.

Not anybody else and hey Congress could pass a law and then you could enforce it

against presidential candidates someday and we're not ruling on all of the more controversial stuff.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast February 9th,

2004. Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v Anderson, the case in

the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump is

disqualified from future office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and thus cannot appear on the presidential ballot.

This week's Trump's trials and tribulations, which we're airing today because it's so timely, was recorded in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.

I sat down in the virtual jungle studio with lawfare senior editors

Roger Parloth and Quinta Jurassic, lawfare legal fellow and courts

correspondent Anna Bauer,

and Gerard Maglioca, a law professor at Indiana University

and an expert on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

to talk about the oral arguments, how the justices may rule and the implications of the arguments.

We also checked in on the other Trump trials, you know, the ones in Fulton County, the Southern District of Florida, and

Washington, D.C. to see what's new. And of course, we took audience questions from

lawfare material supporters on Zoom.

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