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
i think this demeans what is happening. why are democrats so against brett kavanaugh? it is an important time in the supreme court, he is the swing vote replacing justice kennedy and in this case we are talking things like lgbt rights, the 1964 civil rights act, gender orientation, kennedy held the court a certain way. brett kavanaugh is leading another, a big one. there are major issues this court is about to change with brett kavanaugh and it reminds me of the locker era. i don t want to go back to that time and i he feel that is where we are headed, the federalist society want another originalist judge and change the lay of the land. i would like to or 3 more of them after this justice but you in your conversation with