when the many legal troubles facing donald trump will come to a head, tonight the ex president has just lost access to the presidential ballot in a second state. secretary of state from maine ruled that, quote, donald j trump is not qualifi to hold the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment. which bars people who have engaged in insurrection from holding office. quote, the events of january 6th, 2021, where unprecedented and tragic. and the evidce here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of and with the knowledge and support of the outgoing president. she adds, quote, i am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived presidential candidate of ballot access based on section three of the 14th amendment. i am also mindful however that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection. the main ruling comes just about a week before the colorado state supreme court reached the same conclusion. bayard trump from the ballot. t
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Global markets are reeling this morning at chinese stocks take another plunge. U. S. Futures falling sharply now with the dow poised to open down about 3 . Lets look at the numbers. The shanghai composite wiped out all gains for the year, its largest fall in that market in eight nears. The nikkei tumbled four and a half , hitting a five month low. Australia had its worst one day sell off in four years, markets plunging wiping some 40 billion u. S. Dollars off the books there. European stocks are hurting, too, in london, down two and a half , germanys Main Exchange is off 3 . Adrien brown has more on whats behind this from beijing. It is another turbulent day for asian stock markets. Shanghai, the worst performing is down more than 8 , the biggest single day drop in many months. The government before the market opened has said that it was going to use billions of dollars from a state pension fund to p
Very delighted they decided to join us. Judgen the left, is hornby. He has been a district judge for 25 years. Before that, he had two careers. He was on the Main Supreme Court and he was a law professor at the university of virginia. Just a great asset. Next is janice brown from the court of appeals. She has had a very distinguished career. Prior to that she was a judge of the california Supreme Court and court of appeal. She also had experienced serving for the high score in the state. We will talk about federalism and the interplay between the state and federal courts as a result of reconstruction. I cannot think of two judges i would rather have appeared. A few. Thank you. Let me after a question. When you think about your career, how have the reconstruction of minutes played a role in it . Both as state and federal judges . Saynk it sounds odd to how they have effected your career, because that was a long time ago. I should knowledge that i think much havs change. D. We are not fa
Citizenship. For millions of americans, the site of a policeman instills a sense of calm, faith, that order is being kept, that good guys are watching. For many others, thousands stopped on the streets of new york because they look or act a certain way. That footage is the center of an internal police investigation. [speaking spanish] [bad boys] police stops have a couple of different purposes. The main one is to keep streets and those safe by stopping drivers who are driving too fast or lowing through stop signs or not yielding at stop lights. The police in recent years have developed a second purpose for police stops. They use them to try to hunt criminals or people who they suspect might be criminals. They will look if you look suspicious or seem out of place or seem up to no good in one way or another. Sometimes the signs of this are quite subtle. They will stop those people and proceed to ask questions. For example, what are you doing in the neighborhood, where are you going, is t
Decision bolsters the republican efforts to confirm a replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election. Now just six weeks away. Six weeks from today. The president said he will tell us who we intend to nominate saturday. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. It was a relief or President Trump today to find out that he at least had the votes to bring a nominee forward and while it is still unclear at this point whether a final vote in the full senate will take place before election day, republicans will move as quickly as they can to get that done. The timing for the announcement of President Trumps nominee is likely saturday afternoon before he leaves for Pennsylvania Campaign rally. President trump today indicated he has all but made up his mind on who it will be. I would say im very close to making a decision in my own mind and im going to reveal it on saturday. Max sources tell fox news a top contender continues