and the reidout with joy reid is up next. good evening everyone. welcome to the reidout. we begin tonight with major breaking news. a bombshell ruling from the colorado supreme court in just the last hour, states that donald trump is disqualified from holding the office of president. and from appearing on the republican primary ballot in that state. in a more than 200 page ruling the court found that trump is ineligible for the white house under section 3 of the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution. the court found that district court was correct in its early ruling calling the january 6th attack on the capitol an insurrection and that trump, quote, engaged in that insurrection through his personal actions. the court noted we do not reach these conclusions lightly. we are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us. we are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law without fear or favor. and without being swayed by public reaction to
i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. kaitlan is back. that makes me very happy. we re back. and so much going on today. and what s going to come. let s hope a deal. yeah. let s get started. i do sense a skeptic? i believe it. let s get to the five things we need to know for this wednesday, may 24th. ron desantis set to announce his 2024 white house run today. there is nothing conventional about this. he s going to make the announcement on twitter with elon musk. the once favored platform for his rival donald trump before he got banned. and speaking of the former president, he now has a court date in the stormy daniels hush money probe here in new york. he ll stand trial in march of 2024, right in the middle of the campaign for the auto term. and a super typhoon is lashing the american territory of guam right now. it is expected to bring a triple threat of heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and life
the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens. let but those legal losses have not corrupt his legal team s efforts to escape, or at least postpone his prosecutions, at a hearing on friday his lawyers went as far as to argue that a trial in the fulton county georgia case this year would constitute election interference. can you imagine the notion of for president, not being able to campaign for the presidency because he is, in some form or fashion, incapable of defending himself? that would be the most effective election interference in the history of the united states . we re gonna let the fulton county judge make the argument on that. but those are reminders that there are still a number of complex issues to resolve as america, for the first-time, consider the prosecution of a former president who is also running to return to the white house. it has been looming large over the republican presidential primary since the very beginning, and these recent rul
tuesday. so they feel like the pressure should cause a decision to come as early as february 11th. the colorado republican party that has join ed with donald trump to challenge the ruling by the colorado supreme court says as long as you rule by march 5th, things will be okay. march 5th is super tuesday. colorado and about 15 other states will be holding their primaries that day. so that s the time pressure on this court that normally moves very slowly. we ll be following your reporting. thank you so much. thank you. coming up, more from our town hall with nikki haley and ron desantis. the two candidates sharpening their attacks on donald trump. and oscar pistorius, the double amputee olympian turned killer is out of prison. why he was freed after killing his girlfriend and her family now will respond.
the next day, march 5th is super tuesday, the judge made the announcement in court donald trump is not immune from following the schedule of this trial. said she s not taking his campaigning schedule into consideration by any means, and wants to follow normal order. she believes his team has plenty of time to prepare for a trial that would begin with jury selection on the 4th of march. before she issued the trial date, john lauro said it s a request for a show trial, not a speedy trial, the judge replied let s take the temperature down. the former president s attorneys wanted it in april 2026. smith s team wanted january 2024. the government today, sandra, said they have 12.8 million pages of discovery evidence, handed over the majority of that, trump team says they