paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i
this midterm election cycle has been unlike any other. historically the party of the sitting president intends to lose seats during midterm elections. and that would appear to be bad news for democrats. who only have a slim majority in congress. but the relative factors at play this year and that has made the outcome of this election cycle very difficult to protect as the supreme court s aggressive decision to overturn roe v. wade for months ago created a sudden radical intangible change to reproductive rights and health care access and the unpopularity of that decision has helped democrats gain a political advantage. the january six committee and its public findings hat could also factor into november s elections and even though the committee has presented plenty of documentary evidence and testimony from witnesses about the central role that donald trump played in spreading the big lie implementing a coup it has not really effective support for the republican party. that is
the uk government s plans to send some migrants to rwanda is unlawful, according to the united nations. an official report detailed a chain of failures by authorities in paris who handled the champions league final last month. the latest on the devastating impact of the sharply rising cost of living, and the choices people have to make. it s either you do the washing and you run out of electric, or you don t do the electric and you do the washing by hand. and more than three centuries after the gloucester sank off the coast of norfolk with the loss of hundreds of lives, the wreck has been found. and coming up on the bbc news channel: england s second test match against new zealand is under way, and it s been a frustrating day for the england bowlers at trent bridge. good evening. borisjohnson has ordered ministers to do everything in their power to secure the release of two britons who ve been condemned to death by russian authorities in eastern ukraine. aiden aslin and sha
and in half an hour s time, leading uk commentators and foreign correspondents based in london debate borisjohnson s survival. and, in the week of the begian king s visit to congo, why colonial powers find it so hard to say sorry . that s in dateline: london stay with us. hello, good evening if you rejust joining us, welcome to bbc news. campaigners have failed in their legal bid to stop a migrant removal flight to rwanda from departing on tuesday. united nations refugee officials warned the home office on two occasions that the plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda were unlawful. but tonight, the high court ruled that 31 migrants can leave on a flight to rwanda on tuesday. although the case will now go to the court of appeal on monday after it was granted permission to campaigners to change the situation. our home editor mark easton has been taking a look at the issues. is it lawful to give people seeking asylum in the uk a one way ticket to rwanda, telling them to pursu
Wealth, sometimes by billions of dollars, to get cheaper loans and insurance. He cancelled some of the licences which allow mr trumps businesses to operate in new york. Mr trump issued a Statement Denouncing Thejudge as deranged and the states Attorney General as corrupt. 0ur North America correspondent peter bowes reports another legal blow for the former president. In a civil lawsuit, he and his two sons, along with the trump organisation, have been accused of staggering levels of fraud. 0ne claim is that mr trump inflated the value of his properties hotels, golf clubs and Apartment Buildings and exaggerated the size of his luxury flat in trump tower. The case is due to go to trial next week, but the judge has already ruled on part of it, and determined that the former president repeatedly lied about his financial affairs. In a post on his Social Media Platform Truth social, donald trump called the judge deranged and said the claim he committed fraud was both ridiculous and untrue. I