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🗓️ 5 March 2024
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0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 5, 2024. |
0:07.5 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
0:11.6 | from a Christian worldview. The Supreme Court of the |
0:14.5 | United States announced on Sunday that it would hand down a ruling yesterday |
0:18.9 | as to whether or not a decision by the Supreme Court of Colorado would stand that |
0:24.9 | would bar Donald Trump from being a candidate in the Republican primary which |
0:29.9 | by the way will come as a part of Super Tuesday today. |
0:33.6 | Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States contravened the Supreme Court of the |
0:37.8 | state of Colorado by stating that the state of Colorado, and in particular in this case, the state Supreme Court has no right to strike anyone from the federal |
0:46.3 | ballot. That is a power that is restricted to the United States of America |
0:51.2 | when it comes to a national election, even if the election |
0:54.3 | is conducted by the state. The Colorado Supreme Court had made its ruling on the |
0:59.8 | basis of what it claimed was a barring of the candidate in this case Donald Trump |
1:04.3 | according to section 3 of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution |
1:08.9 | adopted after the Civil War that amendment with that section barred anyone from the ballot who was |
1:16.2 | guilty of being an insurrectionist. |
1:19.0 | Now from the start, this was a very questionable decision, and that's to state the very least simply because |
1:25.3 | Donald Trump though he is facing some very serious legal charges including criminal charges at this point |
1:31.0 | including some charges related to the events of January 6, 2021. |
1:36.2 | The fact is he has not yet been found guilty, and in particular he has not been convicted |
1:40.8 | of being an insurrectionist, and he has not been struck from the ballot |
1:44.6 | by any lawful federal authority. So the Supreme Court ruling was 9-0. That's really |
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