over his claim of immunity from federal election subversion charges, at least for now. the trump team opposing the special counsel s request for the justices to immediately review the case. trump is planning to take a very different matter to the high court. we are awaiting his formal appeal of the historic decision barring him from the republican primary ballot in colorado. tonight, trump s gop rivals are taking his side and slamming the ruling. plus, president biden says the united states is pushing israel and hamas to reach a new deal to free more hostages held in gaza. we ll get an update on the talks and the potential terms and timing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the u.s. supreme court could rule at any time on whether to expedite a review of donald trump s immunity claim in the federal election subversion case. this, after the trump team s legal filing a short whi
president. and after the colorado supreme court disqualified donald trump from the ballot, they are asking the supreme court to stay out of the federal election case. how is this playing out in the 2024 case. evan, the colorado supreme court said last night that trump is not eligible to be on colorado s ballot because the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution bans insurrectionists from holding office. the u.s. supreme court is going to decide whether that ruling stands ultimately. what might this mean for the 2024 election? well, jake, what it means is that it puts the supreme court squarely in possibly deciding how this election goes forward, right? not since the bush v gore decision in 2000 have we had the supreme court in the middle of an election race. you look at the timeline that we have ahead of us, the former president has until january 4th to file an appeal. we don t anticipate he will do that for a few days, but we think he will go to the supreme court, because