From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.

Today, the story behind the bombshell court ruling issued last night that could

knock Donald Trump off the ballot for president in Colorado and open the floodgates for efforts to disqualify him across the country.

I spoke with my colleague Supreme Court reporter, Adam Liptack.

It's Wednesday, December 20th.

So, Adam, thank you for jumping on with us. So last minute and so late at night. It is 10 p.m. on the nose.

And we're talking to you at this ungodly hour because we've all just been jolted by a very big ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court.

Can you briefly just describe that ruling? The Colorado Supreme Court by a

four to three vote said that Donald Trump is not eligible to be on the ballot for

the Republican primary election there saying that a provision of the 14th Amendment

adopted after the Civil War bars people who have engaged in insurrection from holding federal office,

that Donald Trump did engage in an insurrection

in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election,

and that this clause, although fashioned for the aftermath of the Civil War, continues to have

force and requires the court to bar him from being on the ballot.

So just in summary, the court has found that

Trump's overall conduct around what we have come

to call January 6th.

His role in a pretty elaborate effort to overturn the 2020 election despite losing it

means that he should not be allowed to stand for re-election in Colorado,

which would seem to have very big implications for the 2024 election

because it's an election that's about to start in just a few weeks,

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