Today the US Supreme Court took on a major case.

We'll hear argument this morning in case 23, 719, Trump versus Anderson.

The central question of the case is whether or not former President Donald Trump should

be allowed to appear on the presidential ballot after his actions leading up to the January 6 riots.

Here's Jason Murray, one of the lawyers making the case against Trump.

We are here because for the first time since the War of 1812

our nation's capital came under violent assault. For the first time in history

the attack was incited by a sitting president of the

United States to disrupt the peaceful transfer of presidential power. By

engaging an insurrection against the Constitution, President Trump disqualified himself from public office.

The case stems from a ruling out of the Colorado Supreme Court, which barred Trump from the ballot there.

Here's Trump's lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell.

The Colorado Supreme Court's decision is wrong

and should be reversed for numerous independent reasons.

The first reason is that President Trump is not covered by Section 3 because the President

Our colleague Jan Wolf was watching the arguments.

The stakes in this case are incredibly high in that theoretically the Supreme Court could

remove Donald Trump from the ballot by affirming the Colorado Supreme Court

decision saying he should not be on the ballot in that

state. But you know going into the argument very few people expected that to happen

because it would be such a profound thing for a Supreme Court to do.

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