What The Trump Lawsuits Mean For The 2024 Election
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
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Summary
The original decision is based on language from the Fourteenth Amendment. Maine's secretary of state issued a similar decision. Trump appealed both rulings last week.
The court's decision to hear the appeal has major implications for the 2024 election and beyond. The former president also faces a slew of other legal challenges, including four criminal cases and multiple civil suits.
We discuss what this means for the country's democracy.
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| 0:14.5 | Learn more at concur.com. The stakes of the 2024 presidential election just got higher. |
| 0:29.8 | We have some big things going in there. |
| 0:31.8 | I just saw the Supreme Court just before I came. I got some beauties today. I had the one and then I had the other. Supreme Court is taking the case from Colorado. |
| 0:41.0 | That was former President Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in |
| 0:44.8 | Iowa on Friday. Trump is referring to a decision by Colorado Supreme Court that |
| 0:49.9 | barred him from the state's primary ballot last month. |
| 0:53.3 | The decision was based on the 14th Amendment, |
| 0:55.6 | and Trump's involvement in the January 6th insurrection. |
| 0:59.0 | Maine's Secretary of State issued a similar decision. |
| 1:01.6 | Trump appealed both rulings last week putting |
| 1:03.7 | them on pause and now the Supreme Court is going to weigh in. This is the first time |
| 1:09.3 | in history the High Court has been called on to declare a leading candidate's disqualification from holding |
| 1:14.7 | office under the Constitution. |
| 1:16.6 | But the Court's decision isn't the only thing that could threaten the former President's |
| 1:19.7 | political future. |
| 1:21.0 | Trump is also facing a slew of lawsuits expected to come to a head this year. |
| 1:25.4 | We talk about what those could mean for the election later, but first, the fate of the election |
| 1:29.4 | is in the hands of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:31.6 | What does that mean for the country's democracy? We'll get into it after the break. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story. |
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