Little january 6th insurrection. The highest court in the land today kept him on the ballot in a ruling a dodges the facts of january 6th and trumps role in it. Instead, the Supreme Court handed trump a second gift on a constitutional technicality. The justices say that states do not have the power to bar candidates from running for federal office. They say, quote, because the constitution makes Congress Rather than the states responsible for enforcing section 3 against federal Office Holders and candidates, we reverse. Theyre referring to the decision by the Colorado State Supreme Court. Now, that court found that trump did engage in insurrection by trying to overturn the will of the voters by any means possible, including violence, and that section 3 of the 14th Amendment does, in fact, apply to the presidency. Now, the Supreme Courts decision today does not touch on either the question of whether trump is or is not an insurrectionist, or whether the text of section 3 applies to him.
Heres The Big Question of the evening, everyone. Did donald trump just perhaps violate the conditions of his release . The former president threatening retaliation just 24 hours after, yes, his third indictment. What a judge warned him against, intimidating or tampering with witnesses. Take a look. On social media, he was writing, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Kind of a way of saying, dont come for me till i send for you, apparently. Well talk about that with our law expert who testified at one of his impeachment hearings. Trump also railed against the charges against him at an event in alabama just a short time ago. Every one of these many fake charges filed against me by the Corrupt Biden Doj could have been filed 2 1 2 years ago. They didnt want to do it 2 1 2 years ago. They wanted to wait, and they did wait. They waited right until the middle of an election. They waited until i became the dominant force in the polls. They want to interfere in my campaign. They wa
Fascinating interview. Weve all been leaning into see what bill barr had to say. A lot of us, waiting to figure out what he would think about all this. Im laura coates. Everyone. And thank you all for joining me right here in washington, d. C. Its the capitol on high alert tonight. Why . Because the nation is bracing for the arrest and arraignment of a former president. Shall i say, again . The third time in, what, three months . He will appear in court tomorrow, as expected. In now his third indictment on charges of trying to overturn an election. And weve learned at cnn that the Secret Service is already done a walk through of the courthouse and Law Enforcement is now monitoring even potential threats. Meantime, everyone, we are getting an early look at what his potential Defense Strategy might be. Including whats called, this is not my term, but the delusion defense, that he actually believed his own lies. Plus, suggestions that hes about to throw his legal advisors under the bus. I
Living with parkinsons disease. Richard lewis was 76 years old and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now with a democracy. Well, the jury i mean the Supreme Court is still out on that one tonight on laura coates why well, its morning in london and they will woke up with the king, will guess what america you could be going to bed with one thats if the Supreme Court hands donald trump a get out of jail free card. After all, what is akin, someone who answers to no one can do what he wants it . Well, whos going to check them . Boo in a democracy . The answer is supposed to be the other two branches of government, right . You coequal branches, the whole checks and balances thing is all coming back to us now, right . I mean, its easy to forget these days when the Supreme Court Just Announced its going to take up the question of whether a president has absolute immunity no theyre not treating that as some kind of rhetorical question. Theyre actually going to he
suggest that. is there any evidence to suggest that the presidency was what they were focused on? there is some evidence of that. there were people saying we don t want jefferson davis to be elected president and there was also one of the drafts of section 3 specifically mentioned the presidency and the vice president. but it wasn t the final enactment. right. it wasn t the final enactment, but it shows there was some concern about some people about confederate insurrectionists ascending to the presidency. we look at the historical evidence and pick the evidence we like and interpret is tan den shally because you can throw this counterveiling evidence back in our face. we wanted to focus on the text of the constitution, this was a compromised provision that was enacted in section 3. let me ask you another question about the states. you have forcefully made an argument about the states not being able to enforce section 3, so if we agree with you on that, what happens