arguments in about 80 of those casings touching on every aspect of american life, big or small. and at this very moment, they are waiting to hear if they will pick up one of those big cases, the kind of case that winds up in the had history books. the outcome could determine who is on the ballot for milons of voters as they head to the polls this year. we are talking about a challenge to donald trump s spot on the ballot based on the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for office. as we reported on this program yesterday, the ex-president is now asked the supreme cou to keep him on the ballot appealing a ruling from the supreme court that found trump was ineligible because of his role on january 6th. the republican party has also asked the court to take the case. so of the voters who filed the challenge in the first place, everyone agrees the supreme cot has to take action. the washington post reports that attorneys for the colorado voters who challenge
schools that teaching slavery was beneficial. pushing a bill mandating teaching a highly misleading narrative, one of the most heinous perio of american history in florida naming it after the first black vice pre kamala harris, truth and slavery teaching act requires instruct history of afcan-ameri comprehensive account of the sociopolitical circumstances surrounding slavery including which political party supported slavery by adopting post-slavery tenets as part of their platform, et cetera. joining us now princeton university professor and distinguished political scholar eddie gloud, and eddie, ron desantis and republicans in florida can t go any lower they do this. they do, right? this is the lost cause stuff. this is kind of the second
what slavery really involved. it involves rape, it involves torture and taking a baby from its mother and depriving people of the humanity of the world and subjecting people to the requirement that they would think of themselves as less than human. how is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities that there is any benefit to being sub jugated to this. there is a deeper rooted call that they are offering, right? it is it is by design that they are putting race and slavery at the center of their argument. yeah. my good friend eddie glaude is more of a gentleman than i am. let me opine, it is a dirty, ugly, despicable stunt by florida republicans whose chair
iteration of the lost cause where they ll tell a story about slavery, but what is so fascinating about this, alicia, is that it is so dumb, right? i could easily respond to. i could tell the story of the founding of the founding of the democratic party in 1828 and i can tell the founding of the republican party in 1854, and i can tell what happened with fdr and what happened with johnson and what happened with ronald reagan in 1980. i can tell that stuff, but it doesn t matter because it s not about the facts. they just want to own liberals, and so i think it s important for us to a, call for what it is, a deep seeded ignorance and b, for call it for what it is, a deep-seeded cynical play and we shouldn t play that game even though i m not quite a liberal. so important and a good one.s david, i want you to read some he speech, and this is from eice president, this is the objected to, quote, adultsno
is under criminal investigation for rape and whose governor is about to have to drop out of the presidential race because the culture wars that he launched in the state of florida simply aren t going to get him to the white house, and he will have to deal with that disappointment. at its root is what it means for children in the state of florida and students because it is our children, the children of my wife and i who will not be allowed in the state of florida to be taught that slavery and systemic racism has contributed to economic inequality in the united states. that s prohibited now in the state of florida, so it will be up to my wife and i to make sure that our children actually learn the truth about the history of race and the economy in the united states. under ron desantis leadership and the republican party who controls the super majority in the legislature, they continue to use race as a political tool and they do so in ugly and despicable ways, and i know eddie would say