Why Colorado court’s ruling (probably) won’t spell an end for Trump
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Colorado Supreme Court determined, by a vote of 4-3, that Donald Trump was ineligible to be on the state’s ballots. The court found the former president engaged in insurrection against the United States — a charge he hasn’t been found guilty of in any other court. Now, the case rests in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. What could be the lasting impact of the court’s decision?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone this is David Green and welcome to left right and center. |
| 0:07.0 | Well I guess we knew this might be coming when you're running for president while facing |
| 0:12.0 | 91 felony counts, |
| 0:14.0 | including charges of defrauding the United States and obstructing a presidential election |
| 0:18.2 | from being certified. A court somewhere might bar you from running for president again. And now we have the Colorado. a court ruling |
| 0:25.0 | somewhere might bar you from running for president again and now we have the Colorado |
| 0:25.2 | Supreme Court ruling by four three to keep Donald Trump's name off the state's |
| 0:31.0 | ballot in 2024. |
| 0:33.0 | In a lawsuit that was filed by voters in Colorado, |
| 0:35.1 | the court ruled that according to Section 3 |
| 0:37.2 | of the 14th Amendment, |
| 0:38.9 | Trump is disqualified. |
| 0:40.3 | The 14th Amendment, we should say, states |
| 0:42.0 | that no one who previously held an office of the United States and took an oath to support the Constitution may hold an office of the United States if they engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or |
| 0:55.8 | comfort to the enemies thereof. This amendment which was ratified in the years |
| 1:01.4 | after the Civil War also states that anyone designated as |
| 1:04.7 | disqualified by this amendment could be ruled eligible by a two-thirds vote in |
| 1:10.0 | both the House and the Senate. Nothing is ever uncomplicated, right? |
| 1:13.8 | So this decision, it applies just to Colorado, |
| 1:16.8 | but the state court did stay their decision |
| 1:19.7 | to give the US Supreme Court a chance to weigh in, |
| 1:22.1 | and now that leaves the door open for the Supreme Court to rule in a way that could be much broader. |
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