Will the courts stop Trump from running?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court of Colorado has used an arcane section of the 14th Amendment of the US constitution to disqualify Donald Trump from standing for president, on the grounds of the part he played in mounting an insurrection against the state.
It’s got to be a good thing, generally, if insurrectionists aren’t allowed to stand for high office. But the judgement raises critical questions about the power of the law versus the power of democracy. And who decides who is and who isn’t an enemy of the state.
Trump‘s rivals fear he will use the ruling to rocket fuel his next stint of fundraising, by calling it a witch-hunt. Democrats are waiting to to see if it’s overturned by the Supreme Court - the ultimate arbiters.
Meanwhile on the mean streets of Wellingborough - another by-election looms after the suspension of Tory MP Peter Bone. We take you to both Colorado and Wellingborough you lucky things…
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | It's no wonder Crooked Joe Biden and the far left lunatics are desperate to stop us by any means necessary. |
| 0:18.6 | They are willing to violate the U.S. constitutions at levels never seen |
| 0:22.8 | before in order to win this election. Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. It's a threat. |
| 0:29.8 | Yeah, well, let's not explore the Joe Biden threat to democracy so much coming from a man |
| 0:35.6 | who seemed to be responsible for an insurrection on January |
| 0:38.8 | the 6th. But why he is saying, what he is saying, is that in Colorado, the Supreme Court has ruled |
| 0:45.7 | that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and should not be allowed to be on the ballot for the |
| 0:53.7 | presidential election, in essence, |
| 0:56.4 | and that has caused an absolute firestorm. Are the courts trying to get Donald Trump |
| 1:03.3 | from running for election? There is a stay of execution until the 4th of January. That's when |
| 1:10.0 | we know if Trump will remain on the ballot or be taken off. |
| 1:14.0 | So today we're going to explore what the legal ramifications of this are before it goes to the |
| 1:19.5 | Supreme Court, what the political ramifications might be. And we're also going to take you from |
| 1:25.3 | Colorado to Wellingborough and one Peter Bone. |
| 1:29.4 | Don't say we don't take you for a great ride. |
| 1:32.4 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:37.2 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:39.1 | It's John. |
| 1:40.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:41.2 | It's Lewis. |
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