and that the republican front-runner is heading into the new year with section 3 of the 14th amendment nipping at his heels. first it was colorado, now it s maine saying that trump is disqualified from being on the ballot. and let s not forget that more than a dozen other states with the 14th amendment have cases pending. 14th amendment cases. now the new ruling from the maine secretary of state is as fiery as it is somber. quote, i nclude as did the colorado supremeou that the record establishes that mr. trump over the course of several months and culminating on january 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the capitol to prevent certificati o the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power. i likeise conclude mr. trump was aware of the likely hood for ce and at least initially supported its useiven he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely action to stop it. the weight of the evidence ma
a wanna be dictator who is open to saying so is likely to be the republican nominee for president some time in the next 45 days? absolutely there is. tim, over the weekend, nearly every republican candidate decided to opt out of iowa s minority focus presidential forum, causing organizers to cancel the event. what message is that sending? are republicans not trying to broaden the voter pool? ana, i don t know if you ve been to many iowa caucus events, but they ve pretty white. it s a white bread audience. that s going to be true in new hampshire as well on the republican side of the aisle. this is a party that made a decision way back in 2016 that the path to victory is by running up huge margins among white voters, particularly white working class voters and they don t need to try to expand the demographic footprint of the party.
weekend talking about the colorado decision before the supreme court. the supreme court there is taking the case from colorado. all i want is fair. i fought really hard to get three very, very good people in there, great people, very smart people. i just hope they re going to be fair. because the other side plays the ref. does it sound like he s trying to put his thumb on the scale here and influence the justices? absolutely. he s essentially not saying i hope they ll be fair. he s saying i hope they ll be biased in my favor, essentially that they were bought and paid for. he s the one that got them on the bench, and, therefore, it s a quid pro quo. his own lawyer, alina habba said something along those lines, where they said, we can kaunt on kavanaugh, he s our guy. we can count on him. that s not how it works. i think with the colorado supreme court decision on
appeal, i do think donald trump is going to succeed there. it s just i do think that conservative majority will find this is too drastic a step for them to take and the law is not crystal clear on this issue. it s unprecedented. it s never come up before in terms of a president being engaged in an veshgs. on something else, like the question of immunity which after it goes to the d.c. court of appeals, i expect it will go to the supreme court. i think that s a clear looser for donald trump. i don t think the conservative majority will find he was absolutely immune from federal criminal prosecution. it sounds like the supreme court can have a big role in how this election proceeds with donald trump as the front-runner in the republican primary. the issue they re taking up with the colorado 14th amendment decision by the state supreme court there is one that could have bearing on a whole bunch of other states, given there have been multiple challenges. i thit it s more than a dozen sta
needed to be a decision. both of those requirements of the colorado electoral code were violated here. there were various delays that took place. one of the things that the colorado justice said in dissent is that s because the colorado state code wasn t really able to deal with this kind of complex constitutional issue. that may be a way for the supreme court to get around this, to basically say these state electoral codes are here to deal with things like age, whether or not somebody was born in the united states, not complex constitutional issues that takes weeks, months, years to deal with. it s all complex when it comes to things with trump and when it comes to the law and the constitution. as we look ahead to the hearing tomorrow dealing with presidential immunity claims, one of the arguments we re hearing from trump s team is, at least in part, that he can t be tried in a court of law because already impeached and then acquitted in the senate for allegations related to janua