up any and all arguments that were raised below. you know, you can expect sort of the same kind of briefing that we saw in the colorado supreme court. i think you re going to see also, a shout-out to neil, which is i think that is completely the right strategy to call out the conservative justices here and to say that you have to be true to your legal principles here regardless of your political leanings one way or the other that you have endorsed in a certain way of examining these cases. and you should be faithful to that, because that conclusion here, it definitely sides much more with the people who want to say that colorado s supreme court decision was correct. calling out those
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eligibility, it infringes on state s own rights to manage their own elections? i am a secretary of state who of course will follow the law and uphold the constitution, and the united states supreme court gets the final word on big constitutional issues. the big constitutional issue in this case is does section 3 of the 14th amendment, the clause that would bar someone from holding office if they engaged in an insurrection apply to the presidency. donald trump is trying to argue to the supreme court that he did not engage in insurrection. but that even if he did, the constitution does not apply to him. i think that s wrong. two courts have found that he did engage in insurrection, and i don t think that the presidency should be some get out of jail free card from the constitution. so i do think the colorado supreme court got it right. i also think it s appropriate for the united states supreme court to resolve these big
let me read the argument. the colorado supreme court decision would understand constitutionally disenfranchise millions of voters in colorado and likely be used as a template to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters nationwide, so how does this play into the whole battle that s going on right now of whether or not trump should be allowed on these ballots in various snats. you know, look, a lot of us at outset of this, didn t give much chance for these things to go forward. there s been more than 80 lawsuits, the trump team points out, of this nature around the cup truckers and most of these have like fallen away and have not gone as far so the fact that we re even sheer kind of extraordinary, but what i find interesting in the argument that you just read and that you just the part of the argument that you just read is, you know, one of the things that the former president is accused of doing back, you know, on january 6 and the events on january 6 was to disenfranchise all of