Voters, not courts, to decide 2024 election
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court found that Colorado did not have the power to remove Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot. Though the justices had a difference of opinion on how the ruling was decided, their overall agreement was that individual states should not have the power to decide who would be eligible to run for president. That may be the best-case scenario for the 2024 election, according to panelist Mo Elleithee.
“For anyone on the left, anyone who’s worried about Trump, [this election] has to be up to the voters. Trumpism has to be beat at the ballot box,” says Elleithee. As Trump’s candidacy moves forward, will the left shift its focus away from trying to beat Trump in the courtroom?
Meanwhile, commitment to democracy across the globe remains strong, says a poll from the Pew Research Center. But a closer look reveals that satisfaction with the democratic process may be taking a hit. What’s at the root of a growing desire for stronger, singular leaders?
Controversy over Google’s AI tool Gemini raises familiar questions about the trustworthiness of our institutions. Is it much ado about nothing, or a chance to deeply inspect our ideas about bias?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone this is David Green and I'm your host here on left right and center and you |
| 0:06.4 | know I'm sure at some point over the last year or so many of you have had conversations |
| 0:11.3 | with friends or family that that I've been having with a lot of people. |
| 0:14.0 | starts out with someone asking a familiar question. Like, you know, I've been following |
| 0:18.5 | politics that closely. You've got a former president who is facing indictments over 90 criminal charges like is is he really allowed to run for president and you know you get into this whole conversation and decide how far you want to get into the weeds. |
| 0:34.8 | The Supreme Court recently seemed to lean on the idea that President Trump can indeed |
| 0:40.8 | continue to run for President. |
| 0:42.2 | It was actually a 9-0 unanimous ruling. |
| 0:44.7 | The Supreme Court finding that a single state, |
| 0:47.5 | such as Colorado, does not have the right |
| 0:49.6 | to disqualify Trump from running for federal office |
| 0:52.4 | under the 14th Amendment. |
| 0:54.1 | The court's decision leaned on the fact that giving states the power to decide who should |
| 0:59.2 | be on the ballot could throw our democracy into chaos. And so could it be possible that the answer to our inquiring friends and family is that |
| 1:09.1 | letting voters decide and not the courts, you know, to let this election play out, to hear the will of the people, |
| 1:15.8 | to let Donald Trump plow forward with his campaign is actually the best thing for our democracy. Just chew on that for a little while. But that |
| 1:24.4 | leads to so many other questions framing this election, like, do Americans still really |
| 1:29.5 | believe in our democracy and the democratic process? and to what extent is democracy really on the |
| 1:36.0 | ballot this fall more than any single candidate. Well let's dive into all of that |
| 1:40.4 | with our regular panel Sarah Isger is here on the right. She's |
| 1:43.6 | senior editor at the dispatch and former spokesperson for the Department of |
| 1:47.3 | Justice under President Trump and on the left we have Moelithi executive |
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