i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
there was a battle of law review articles. originally bill bode at university of chicago who i know and respect, and his colleague professor paulson, upof st. thomas wrote a law review article articulating the theory that was adopted in colorado and subsequently in maine, but there s been equal scholarship on the other side and professor steven calabrese who was, know, he s he s he s no liberal defender. he founded the federalist society after being an enthusiastic supporter of the bode article and concluded reluctantly that loathesome trump was to him, he had to agree that article 3 did not apply to the president and that trump would have to be beaten at the ballot box. i think that s where the supreme court lend up. i think it should be 9-0 because